So there's an essay I thought it was called The Scientist and The Sage by Asimov (or Sagan?) but I can't currently find a link. The point though is that there'

So there's an essay I thought it was called The Scientist and The Sage by Asimov (or Sagan?) but I can't currently find a link. The point though is that there's only a couple useful things you can say about the universe: it has a definite begin and a definite end, an infinite beginning and no end, some combination of that, or it's cyclical... and because there's a very limited set of possibilities it's trivial to find an ancient sage opining on something that sounds like the big bang and the heat death of the universe. Similarly either this universe is all there is or 'the multiverse' which means it's very easy to find historic sources spouting off things that sound like a multiverse. With out actual evidence, math, science behind it though it's not interesting that they came to this conclusion because simply guessing that this is the way of things doesn't push our understanding forward.