“When the facts don’t fit the theory, the practitioner doubts the theory, the theorist doubts the facts, and the skeptical empiricist doubts both facts and theory.” – Nassim Talebrevisit
“I realize that if you ask people to account for “facts”, they usually spend more time finding reasons for them than finding out whether they are true…They skip over the facts but carefully deduce inferences. They normally begin thus: “How does this come about?” But does it do so? That is what they ought to be asking.” – Montaigne
“Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing…It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.” – Sherlock Holmes
Where Sherlock Holmes meets David Deutsch and Murray Rothbard, again.
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