Larry Niven: Quotes about space

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“The wealth of the universe is all over your head. We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.”

Larry Niven

Space.com interview (2000)

Universe , Wealth

“Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.”

Larry Niven

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 314

Universe

“The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.”

Larry Niven

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 142

Hostility , Universe

“He liked everything about the university except the students.”

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 19 “Channel Two’s Popularity” (p. 162)

Universe

“She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice.”

Larry Niven book The Mote in God's Eye

Source: The Mote in God's Eye (1974), Chapter 51 “After the Ball Is Over” (p. 486)

Universe , Waiting

“In a universe the size of ours almost anything that can happen, will.”

Larry Niven

There Is a Tide (p. 201)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

Universe

“Collaborations are unnatural. The writer is a jealous god. He builds his universe without interference. He resents the carping of mentally deficient critics, and the editor’s capricious demands for revisions. Let two writers try to make one universe, and their defenses get in the way.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Building the Mote in God’s Eye (with Jerry Pournelle) (p. 442)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

God , Universe , Way

“Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.”

Larry Niven book All the Myriad Ways

All the Myriad Ways (p. 79)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Universe , Law , Fraud , Reality

“In fantasy, more than in other forms of literature, the obligation is to teach something universally true about the human condition.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Introduction to All the Myriad Ways (p. 71)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Universe , Literature