They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

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In the years since the Industrial Revolution, the world has been beset with a series of seemingly intractable problems. Inventors and scientists have labored tirelessly to solve them, but they have largely failed. Why? In part, it is because we have been using an inappropriate approach to the problems. Rather than trying to fit the circumstances to our preconceived ideas, we should be trying to fit our preconceived ideas to the circumstances.

Source: Great Expectations

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