# Quote — Greg Bear, Blood Music

> He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.
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> But wasn’t that true of every creator?
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> Didn’t anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment?

- Author: [Greg Bear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear.md)
- Book: [Blood Music](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music.md)
- Page: 219
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greg_Bear#Blood_Music_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/he-may-not

## More from this book

> Nothing will ever be the same again.
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> Good! Wonderful! Wasn’t it all badly flawed anyway?
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> No, perhaps not. Not until now.

p. 219 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/nothing-will-ever.md)

> “You’re a romantic, aren’t you?” she said.
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> “I suppose I am.”
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> “I am too. The silliest people in the world are romantics.”

p. 210 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/youre-a-romantic.md)

> “Very evocative. He seems to be confirming what I said last year—that the universe really has no underpinnings, that when a good hypothesis comes along, one that explains the prior events, the underpinnings shape themselves to accommodate and a powerful theory is born.”
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> “Then there is no ultimate reality?”
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> “Apparently not. Bad hypotheses, those that don’t fit what happen on our level, are rejected by the universe. Good ones, powerful ones, are incorporated.”

p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/greg-bear/blood-music/very-evocative-he-seems.md)