“We’re inferring from an absence of data,” Jacque said. “That’s lousy science.” - Joe Haldeman

Any time somebody starts out a sentence with your name, Leonard thought, they’re trying to sell you something.

One class of crackpots felt that Harrison had betrayed humanity, giving conquering hordes of aliens a road map back to Earth. The details of what they would do to us, and why, provided an interesting refraction of the individual crackpot’s problems.

“The problem with most people,” Samuel cut in, “isn’t that they don’t know a lot of things. Just that most of what they know is wrong.”