technike

We build up whole cultural
patterns based on past "facts"
which are extremely selective.
When a new fact comes in that
does not fit the pattern, we
don't throw out the pattern.
We throw out the fact.

Robert Pirsig

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,
instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes