Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth. - Leigh Brackett

I grew up with the idea of it," said Hostetter. "Nobody ever taught me that it was evil or forbidden, or that God had put a curse on it, and that's the difference.

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.

Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.