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‘Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.’
Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world.
Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.
So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley