Wars don’t determine who’s right, only who’s left. - Gregory Benford

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average." "For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

She sighed. “We’re just guessing.”
“When you have a Ph. D., you call them hypotheses, not guesses.”

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life’s pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.