Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
mistake data entrepreneur
Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
truth knowing light
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
fate power siege
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
teacher teaching childhood
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
religion progress statistics
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
memories fall reality
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
secret balance wave
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
misery force humans
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
ignorance culture brutality
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
father errors principles
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
church holiness pope
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
government needs flaws
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
self people want
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko
roots giving identity
I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity