"Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality. Our maps are still maps, approximating the landscape of truth from the territories of the knowable — incomplete representational models that always leave more to map, more to fathom, because the selfsame forces that made the universe also made the figuring instrument with which we try to comprehend it."

Maria Popova, Brain PIckings

Before I interviewed the Buddhist monk Taka Kawakami one of the things he said in his introduction to meditation was that in life it is as if we look at the world through a pinhole - we see only a tiny part of what is, and must always keep this in mind when making our judgements and forming our conclusions. Maria Popova’s quote illustrates this nicely.