"The first person to think of the universe as a great organism was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, but the idea of ​​the universe as a living organism was largely formulated by Plato, then by the Stoics, Plotinus and Neoplatonism.

According to the "organismic" view, the structures that make up the universe, galaxies, black holes, quasars, stars, nebulae, planets and us included, should be considered as the tissue of a living giant, something as the parts of the body of the universe."