You can always put something noble in a sneering fashion if you try. - Isaac Asimov

To be brave is sometimes to be foolish.

He started blindly but within a month he had that feeling that every scientist recognizes — the endless click-click as unexpected pieces fall into place, as annoying anomalies become anomalous no more — It was the feel of Truth.

An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.