Pliny the Elder

Some try to measure the cosmos with their own intelligence and even dare to inform everyone of the results of these measurements. Such attempts are madness, just like the efforts of those who, based on them or relying on these results, teach about the infinite number of worlds ... As if, after all this reasoning, we will not find ourselves again in the same position as we were before its beginning.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, first century CE