In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, ho… - James S. A. Corey

We knew that, though.
We suspected it.
Do we know it now?
We suspect it harder," Elvi said. "We're scientists. We only know things until someone shows us we're wrong.

This was a new variation, but that was all. She wanted to believe that, and like anything she fund herself wanting to be true, she forced herself to double-check it.

I don't know what the win look like.
Well, for me, it looks like dying with the knowledge that humanity's a little bit better off than it would have been if I'd never been born. A little freer. A little kinder. A little smarter. That the bullies and bastards and sadists got their teeth into a few less people because of me. That's got to be enough.