# Quote — Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous

> "I therefore suggest that in the style of the previous examples, a natural scientist, examining a single atom might well be able to asseverate the structure and history of the entire universe!"
>
> "Bah!" muttered Hurtiancz. "By the same token, a sensible man need listen to but a single word in order to recognize the whole for egregious nonsense."

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [Rhialto the Marvellous](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/rhialto-the-marvellous.md)
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> "When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much."

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> Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party—whether he realizes it or not—must always come out the worse.

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