“Better to make haste slowly than not at all,” said Amnir sententiously. - Leigh Brackett

I guess we've got a lot to learn."
"Quite a lot," said Hostetter thoughtfully. "It won't be easy, either. So many things will jar against every belief you've grown up with, and I don't care how you scoff at it, some of it sticks to you.

No matter which way I go I know now that I will never have peace.
For peace is certainty, and there is no certainty but death.

I thought they knew," Len said. "I thought they were sure of it."
"Research isn't done that way."
"But how can they spend all that time, and maybe that much more again, if they know it might be all for nothing?"
"Because how would they know if they didn't try? And because there isn't any other way to do it.