For the first time in my life, I can say this without a trace of irony or sarcasm:

"Your fancy math is all well and good, Mister PhD, but there's one thing that can never be quantified: the human spirit.

...no seriously, the abstract variable we vaguely refer to as 'the soul' is playing a ridiculously outsized role in this conflict and it's fucking with the numbers in ways we can't predict, isn't that crazy?"