“But it’s not a serious experiment with a Control-“

“It’s a serious experiment, all right,” said Ender. “The kind of experiment you perform when you don’t give a damn about getting funding, you just need results and you need them now. The kind of experiment you perform when you have no idea what the results will be or even if you’ll know how to interpret them, but there are a bunch of crazy pequeninos planning to get in starships and spread a planet-killing disease all over the galaxy so you’ve got to do something.”

gingerhaze:

I’m really bad at this