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Quotes About Universe

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.
~ Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
~ Frank Herbert
And again he remembered the vision of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad'Dib. That must not happen, he told himself.
~ Frank Herbert
Muad'dib's Jihad was less than an eye-blink in this larger movement. The Bene Gesserit swimming in this tide, that corporate entity trading in genes, was trapped in the torrent as he was. Visions of a falling moon must be measured against other legends, other visions in a universe where even the seemingly eternal stars waned, flickered, died . . . What mattered a single moon in such a universe? Far
~ Frank Herbert
Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobi?nija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budu?nostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.
~ Frank Herbert
The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.
~ Frank Herbert
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense, But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
~ Frank Herbert
the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange…The spice extends life… expands consciousness… gives them the ability to fold space…that is, travel to any part of the universe without moving.
~ Frank Herbert
And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.
~ Frank Herbert
Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her
~ Frank Herbert
They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived.
~ Frank Herbert
Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.
~ Frank Herbert
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —FROM "THE SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN
~ Frank Herbert
the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.
~ Frank Herbert
Svijest onoga koji vjeruje miruje, ne uspijeva se širiti prema van, u neograni?eni, beskrajni svemir.
~ Frank Herbert
Self-awareness: facing mirrors that pass through the universe, gathering new images on the way—endlessly reflexive. The infinite seen as finite, the analogue of consciousness carrying the sensed bits of infinity.
~ Frank Herbert
Le esplosioni sono anche compressioni del tempo. I mutamenti osservabili nell'universo naturale sono tutti esplosivi, entro certi limiti e sotto certi punti di vista; altrimenti non li notereste. Un mutamento continuo e uniforme, se sufficientemente rallentato, non verrebbe notato da osservatori il cui arco di osservazione, nel tempo, è troppo breve. Perciò, io vi dico che ho visto mutamenti che voi non avreste mai notato.
~ Frank Herbert
Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
~ Frank Herbert
Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe.
~ Frank Herbert
İnsan bilinçalt?n?n derinliklerinde, anlaml? ve mant??a uygun bir evrene duyulan ihtiyaç yatar. Ama gerçek evren, mant???n hep bir ad?m ötesindedir.
~ Frank Herbert
What mattered a single moon in such a universe?
~ Frank Herbert
What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?
~ Frank Herbert
The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.
~ Frank Herbert
I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.
~ Frank Herbert