acts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams, ‘Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,’ December 1770
I am conscious of the world as consisting of multiple realities. As I move from one reality to another, I experience the transition as a kind of shock. - Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann, ‘The Social Construction of Reality,’ 1966
