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Frank Herbert
(8 Oct 1920 - 11 Feb 1986)
American author and novelist whose science fiction works include Dune and five sequels. His works explored a framework including ecology, biology, astronomy, philosophy, politics, physiology, religion and psychology.
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Science Quotes by Frank Herbert (5 quotes)
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
— Frank Herbert
Dune (1965), 406
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
— Frank Herbert
Dune
Once human beings realize something can be done, they’re not satisfied until they’ve done it.
— Frank Herbert
Cease Fire (1958). In Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (2006), 1.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
— Frank Herbert
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There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
— Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah. Quoted in Kim Lim (ed.), 1,001 Pearls of Spiritual Wisdom: Words to Enrich, Inspire, and Guide Your Life (2014), 141
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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