Rationalism doesn’t require “belief,” only observation. The real, measurable world doesn’t care what you believe. - Joe Haldeman

It was so much more complicated than it had to be, but the changeling had noted that this was true of every human biological function that wasn’t involuntary.

It was full of jargon, charts and the kind of vague mathematics that social scientists admire.

Men started to geoform the earth in the middle of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, a lot of the early work was done by people who failed to see the earth as a closed set of mutually interrelated systems.