Know thyself

"We tend to engage in “a pre-conceived, self-confirming journey for validation, rather than a quest for knowledge.” ... “We must catch ourselves in the act of trying to verify our own preconceptions.”...This is a problem for armchair scientists long on theory and short on experimentation.... “The distinction between true believers and skeptics comes at the point of interpretation of phenomena, and attributions of source of events or perceptions.” Iona Miller