# Quote — Robert Silverberg, The Stochastic Man

> It’s not a philosophy, Mr. Nichols. It’s an accommodation to the nature of reality.

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Book: [The Stochastic Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-stochastic-man.md)
- Page: 98
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#The_Stochastic_Man_(1975)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-stochastic-man/its-not-a-philosophy

## More from this book

> I think we made love three times that final summer. Made love! Preposterous euphemism for fucking, almost as bad as the most grotesque of all, slept together. Whatever Sundara and I made, in those three pressings of flesh to flesh, love couldn’t have been the commodity; we made sweat, we made rumpled sheets, we made heavy breathing, we even made orgasms, but love? Love?

p. 162 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-stochastic-man/i-think-we-made.md)

> So it is with all the great leaders: the commodity they have to sell is personality. Mere ideas can be left to lesser men.

p. 73 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-stochastic-man/so-it-is-with.md)

> Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-stochastic-man/thus-does-the.md)