#tru

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ↗

— Charles Pierce

#desire #even #find #intelligent #may

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american #because #believe #best #best way

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

#father #god #him #hour #must

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people. ↗

— John Pilger

#bush #bush administration #clear #contains #control

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#mysterious #reality #truth #vision #art

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#called #collateral #damage #destruction #happens

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. ↗

— Henri Pirenne

#century #culture #destroyed #emperor #essential

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#ashamed #feel #i #i feel #truth

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#enthusiasm #true

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#author #computer #computer program #construct #him