“The politics of reality,†Shevek repeated. He looked at Oiie and said, “That is a curious phrase for a physicist to use.â€
“Not at all. The politician and the physicist both deal with things as they are, with real forces, the basic laws of the world.â€
“You put your petty miserable ‘laws’ to protect wealth, your ‘forces’ of guns and bombs, in the same sentence with the law of entropy and the force of gravity? I had thought better of your mind, Demaere!â€
Ursula K. Le Guin