Maximum Quote by Larry Niven

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

— Jamie Zawinski

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

— Rudolf Clausius

“when you thumb your nose at the laws of physics like you've been doing, the universe tends to get you back through biology." Atticus”

— Kevin Hearne

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is…

— James Hillman

“The perversity of woman!' thought Julien. 'What pleasure, what instinct leads them to betray us?”

— Anonymous

The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge…

— Immanuel Kant

Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the…

— John Calvin

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot…

— William Hazlitt

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Woman, thy name is perversity!”

— Margaret Way

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should…

— Otto Gross

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as…

— Adam Gopnik