… that is too complex for any of us to really understand. Each of us has an organized way of thinking about the world — a paradigm, if you will — and we need those, of course; you can’t get through the day unless you have some organized way of thinking about the world.

But the problem is that the real world is vastly more complicated than the image of it that we carry around in our heads. Many things are real and important that are not explained by our theories — no matter who we are, no matter how intelligent we are.

— Bill James, baseball statistician and consultant to the Boston Red Sox front office, explaining how the team overcame a 3-0 series deficit to beat the evil, evil Yankees and win the World Series.