# Quote — Emma Newman, Planetfall

> These are intelligent, rational people and they just absorb all this shit without even thinking about it. Are they so desperate to hold on to something that they’ll ignore the facts? How long can they do that?

- Author: [Emma Newman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman.md)
- Book: [Planetfall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/planetfall.md)
- Page: 173
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Newman#Planetfall_(2015)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/planetfall/these-are-intelligent

## More from this book

> I’m not going to let that stupid, crazy woman convince everyone that doing this to me is God’s work! She’s just bored and if they knew—

p. 263 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/planetfall/im-not-going.md)

> He doesn’t answer. I can’t stand these little silences from him. They’re too loud.

p. 270 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/planetfall/he-doesnt-answer.md)

> As a scientist, I know this is madness. But I also know this is an act of faith.

p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emma-newman/planetfall/as-a-scientist.md)