"Deep in the unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."
Again, a quote from Frank Herbert. I appreciate the way he works small pieces of wisdom or philosophy or morality into and all through-out Dune. It adds to the novel without detracting from the story; an art which so many authors lack completely.
In any case, this is something that I think many can appreciate. It seems to be a trend in recent humanity to explain the universe. How the universe is expanding, how nothing can surpass the speed of light, how time and space are really the same thing, what anti-matter is and if it exists. And today there'll be one theory and tomarrow another. Like Tommy-Lee Jones says in Men in Black, "500 years ago everybody knew that the earth was the center of the universe, 200 years ago everybody knew that the world was flat, and 15 minutes ago you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomarrow." We like to pretend that we have some kind of dominion over things so we try to understand them. 3000 years ago when people didn't understand why the sun moved across the sky, they blamed Apollo. Today we just have hypothosese. And in reality, we still don't know jack about the way of the universe. In an infinite universe, everything is infinitly possible. We like to pretend that we know about the universe because we need to feel secure. But if we know or do not know, the universe just doesn't care.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, then are dreamt of in your philosophy." -Shakespeare

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