# Quote — Robert Silverberg, Across a Billion Years

> They equally detest our third boss, who is Pilazinool of Shilamak, the big expert on intuitive analysis. Which means the science of jumping to conclusions. He’s good at it.

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Book: [Across a Billion Years](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/across-a-billion-years.md)
- Page: 22
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#Across_a_Billion_Years_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/across-a-billion-years/they-equally-detest

## More from this book

> Now, you know I’m no bigot, Lorie. I don’t care how many eyes, tentacles, eating orifices, or antennae an organism happens to have, so long as it knows its stuff. What I object to is having someone who is professionally inferior jacked into an expedition simply for the sake of racial balance.

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/across-a-billion-years/now-you-know.md)

> The funeral customs of alien races defy all comprehension. So do the funeral customs of non-alien races. Can you explain to me the virtue of putting dead people in a box and burying the box in the ground?

p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/across-a-billion-years/the-funeral-customs.md)

> The higher powers reward us most tenderly by their absence from our lives.

p. 153 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/across-a-billion-years/the-higher-powers.md)