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Whatever elaborate, and grotesquely counter-intuitive, underpinnings there might be to familiar reality, it stubbornly continues to be familiar. When Rutherford showed that atoms were mostly empty space, did the ground become any less solid? The truth itself changes nothing.
-- Greg Egan, Quarantine
Also known as Egan's law. (Personally I think it should be called Stavrianos' law after (I assume) the character, but I wasn't asked.)
I like this. Similar vein to the litany of Gendlin.