What happened? An accident. The kind we always said could never happen.

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To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it.
Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: what is the cost of lies?
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.
What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth.
The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments or ideologies.
We are on a path that must be measured in decades, not weeks.
What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth.
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.
The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.