Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.