Accidents Quote by Frank Herbert

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

— Terry Pratchett

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended…

— Arthur Balfour

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

— Poul Anderson

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

— Douglas Adams

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the…

— Terry Pratchett

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish…

— Ann Druyan

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

— Thomas Carlyle

[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms;…

— Bertrand Russell

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth…

— Anonymous

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon