Can you fight a force which can make you surrender willingly when it so desires; can make you a faithful servant when it so desires? - Isaac Asimov

even if you have right on your side, even if justice thunders condemnation, it is usually the tyranny in existence that has the balance of force on its side.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn't exist.