Reporting from Workstation 9

"The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most causal matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics…is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges…total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience…A conflict with experience on the periphery occasions readjustments in the interior of the field. Reevaluation of some statements entails reevaluation of others, because of their logical interconnections…But the total field is so underdetermined by its boundary conditions, experience, that there is much latitude of choice as to what statements to reevaluate in the light of any single contrary experience."
-W. V. O. Quine