Chernobyl

“What is the cost of lies?  *It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth.  The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we longer recognize the truth at all.  * *What can we do then?  What else is left but you abandoned the hope of truth and content ourselves instead with stories.*  *In these stories, it doesn’t matter who the heroes are.  All we want to know is: who is to blame?* *To be a scientist is to be naïve.  We are so focused on our search for truth, we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it.  But it is always there, whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not.  * *The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.  It will lie in wait for all time. * *And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl.  Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask:*  What is the cost of lies?”