" Huxley believed that knowledge, even when
empirically proven, is only ever a map, never a view of the territory itself. But perhaps it is not so stark as that: perhaps knowledge is more like a trail—a hybrid of map and territory, artifice and nature—wending through a vast landscape. While science may provide a more reliable route to certain answers than, say, a creation myth, it remains narrow; it can reduce the environment to a navigable line, but it cannot encompass it. "

― Robert Moor , On Trails: An Exploration