All the Light We Cannot See

by Anthony Doerr

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth

The resistance is pitched to Werner as supremely organized; they are dangerous, disciplined insurgents; they follow the words of ferocious, lethal leaders. But he sees firsthand how they can be so loosely allied as to be basically ineffectual—they are wretched and filthy; they live in holes. They are ragtag desperadoes with nothing to lose.