I once asked [Bertrand] Russell if he was willing to die for his beliefs. ‘Of course not,’ he replied. ‘After all, I may be wrong.’”
-Leonard Lyons, The New York Post, June 23, 1964.
Tag: Truth
That which can be destroyed by the truth…
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.
— P.C. Hodgell, Seeker’s Mask, Kirien
I don’t give them hell I just tell…
I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
-Harry S Truman
A thing is not necessarily true because a…
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
-Oscar Wilde
Instead of always emphasizing what we actually know…
Instead of always emphasizing what we actually know in science, it would be enormously fruitful to focus on what we do not know. For it is here that the wonders lie. To know is the domain that is safe, where risk taking is no longer necessary. To dwell in it forever is not only to never advance, it is also to promote a deceptive and false view of ourselves as knowing more than we do, of being more powerful that we really are.
-Lewis Thomas, Former President of Sloane Kettering Cancer Institute