For once, no eminent figure assumed the undignified pose involved in standing on one’s dignity. — Murray Leinster

There was bitter resistance to the idea. It was demanded that Burke justify his views in a more reasonable way than by mere demonstration that they worked.

As a young man he was considered promising. If he had been interested in such matters, he might have had a moderately successful career in politics, as politics was practiced in his nation. But he liked things. Real things.

“It isn’t reasonable!” insisted Holmes. “It doesn’t make sense!”

“The question,” observed Burke, “isn’t whether it makes sense, but whether it’s fact.”