Michael was so stubbornly optimistic that it made him stupid sometimes, or at least painful to be around. — Kim Stanley Robinson

“It’s the same old story,” he said bitterly. “The resistance begins fighting itself, because that’s the only thing it can beat. Happens every time. You can’t get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”

If enough data points trouble the theory, the theory may be wrong. If the theory is basic, the paradigm may have to change.

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.