Analysis of this information can help you understand how the universe works at many levels.

Because I knew how the universe worked, and nobody got out alive.

They want to believe the universe works according to their crazy little rules?

Science in the empire is more than knowing how the universe works.

That's the way the universe works, and I accept that.

"Or is it the simple frustration of not understanding how the universe works?"

Science is understanding how the universe and the things in it work.

But it does seem that there are more or less deep patterns in how the universe works.

"Now that you've seen a little more of how the universe really works."

It's a waste of time and money trying to understand how the universe works?