Reality does not care

"Reality does not conform to what we want it to be. The facts are the facts. Reality does not care if we do not like the way it is put together . It goes right along being reality any how . Reality does not care if we prefer to disbelieve facts about the heart or the brain or the cause of AIDS. By working with reality , we can sometimes change it by finding a new vaccine or a new machine to harness electricity . Science—testing, being guided by the facts, revising, testing again —is the best deal we have for getting a bead on reality . And this is as true on the farm or in the forest as in the lab."