You argue too damned well!" "It is just my good luck," Detringer said, "that logic happens to be on the side of helping me. - Robert Sheckley

All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth or falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.

“You might say that,” Flynn said, thus avoiding an outright lie, since anyone might say anything whether it was true or not.

“You want me to tell you why reality is the way it is,” Seethwright said. “But there is no explanation for that. You must simply learn to fit your preconceptions to what you find. You must not expect reality to adapt itself to you, except very infrequently.