Linear Quotes - page 7

No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity. But this could imply that you can cut across linear time, open it like a ripe fruit, and see consequential connections. You could be prescient, predict accurately. Predestination and paradox once more. The flaw must lie in our methods of description, in languages, in social networks of meaning, in moral structures, and in philosophies and religions - all of which convey implicit limits where no limits exist. Paul Muad'Dib, after all, says this time after time throughout Dune. (Frank Herbert)