“In the academic world of the social sciences, research designed to understand a problem is often held in higher regard than research to solve the problem. […] it is based on the false assumption that understanding a problem is the key to solving it. This is not true for the toughest problems, the “wicked” ones,”, Daniel Yankelovich, Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions
“The Fallacy of Exquisite Measurement, which states that the ability to measure things down to very fine detail does not automatically confer a power to control things.”, James Howard Kunstler, Living in the long emergency
