# Quote — Frank Herbert, Children Of Dune

> The future of prescience cannot always be locked into the rules of the past. The threads of existence tangle according to many unknown laws. Prescient future insists on its own rules. It will not conform to the ordering of the Zensunni nor to the ordering of science. Prescience builds a relative integrity. It demands the work of this instant, always warning that you cannot weave every thread into the fabric of the past.

- Author: [Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md)
- Book: [Children Of Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/children-of-dune/the-future-of-prescience

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