Jack Vance Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

  Jack Vance

  Loss, Garments, Existence

  Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)”, p.235, Macmillan

• I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

  Jack Vance

  Citing, Ends, Convenient

  Jack Vance (2000). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.716, Macmillan

• The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

  Jack Vance

  Intelligent, Eight, Years

  Jack Vance (1964). “The Houses of Iszm”, p.52, Spatterlight Press

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  Jack Vance

  Men, Order, Trying

  "The Languages of Pao" by Jack Vance, iBooks, (p. 133), 2004.

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