“And yet, in the search for public policy and business solutions, we are in the grip of an obsession with rational quantification. **A nervous and bureaucratic culture is closed-mindedly attaching more importance to the purity of the methodology than to the possible value of the solution**, which leads us to ignore possible solutions not because they have been proven to be wrong, but because they have not been reached through an approved process of reasoning.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[ego]] , [[scientific-method]] , [[alchemy]] , [[psycho-logic]] , [[counter-intuitive-thinking]] **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]