But he persevered. That was what a scientist did, confronted with an enigma. - Kim Stanley Robinson

When she realized what she was doing she snorted in disgust, at herself and at the pervasiveness of politics—how it could infect everything if you let it.

Very little detective work, he was noticing, could be accomplished before a crime occurred.

There was orderly behavior, there was chaotic behavior; and on their border, in their interplay, so to speak, lay a very large and convoluted zone, the realm of the complex.