# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Neveryona

> ‘The problem you have put me will remain a problem till the globe of the world and the globe of the sun meet in their common center and the one consumes the other. This answer I have proposed, however, humanity will know and forget, know and forget, know and forget again. And that knowing and forgetting will approximate the peaks and depths of civilization as closely as the quotient of your tosses approximates that number which, rationally, we know is not there.’

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Neveryona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona.md)
- Page: 358
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Nevery%C3%B3na_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/the-problem-you

## More from this book

> Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.

p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/myself-i-suspect.md)

> For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/for-better-or-for.md)

> To be a bandit is better than to be a slave!

p. 86 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/to-be-a-bandit.md)