An idea from Guide for the Perplexed

Some theologians decided what the world must be like to prove their creed, then said it was so. Facts don’t bend that way. “Themistius was right in saying that the properties of things cannot adapt themselves to our opinions, but our opinions must be adapted to the existing properties.”

From Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides

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