The brutal truth is that reality is indifferent to your difficulty in finding enough subjects. It’s like astronomy: To study things that are small and distant in the sky you need a huge telescope. If you only have access to a few subjects, you need to study bigger effects, and maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
-- Joseph P. Simmons, The Reformation: Can Social Scientists Save Themselves
Voted up for the linked article more than for the quote.