Robert Silverberg - Universe Quotes

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You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.

Robert Silverberg
I have lost my sense of a universe. They say this is the richest era of human existence; but I think a man can be richer in knowing every atom of a single golden island in a blue sea than by spending his days striding among all the worlds.

Robert Silverberg
The cages are ready in case any of the enemies are captured.
You mean us?
Yes. Enemies. Muller's eyes glittered with sudden paranoid fury; it was alarming how easily he slipped from rational discourse to that cold blaze. Homo sapiens. The most dangerous, the most ruthless, the most despicable beast in the universe!
You say it as if you believe it.
I do.

Robert Silverberg
In the absolute universe all events can be regarded as absolutely deterministic, and if we can't perceive the greater structures, it's because our vision is faulty. If we had a real grasp of causality down to the molecular level, we wouldn't need to rely on mathematical approximations, on statistics and probabilities, in making predictions. If our perceptions of cause and effect were only good enough, we'd be able to attain absolute knowledge of what is to come. We would make ourselves all-seeing.

Robert Silverberg
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Robert Silverberg
The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.

Robert Silverberg
They could pray, they had the illusion that a divine plan governed this best of all possible worlds, while I was left in bleak, stormy limbo, dismally aware that the universe makes no sense and that the only universal truth there is is that Entropy Eventually Wins.

Robert Silverberg