“Yeah, there’s a lot of enabling of each other’s dip-shittery. It’s almost all we’ve got.” “We don’t even understand how every organism on our planet works. Haven’t even identified them all yet. What if we just don’t have the language for it?” “Are we obsolete? I think not, I think not. But don’t ask the army’s opinion of that. A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.” “As a physicist, what do you do when you’re faced by something that doesn’t care what you do and isn’t affected by your actions? Then you start thinking about dark energy and you go a little nuts.”