Unpleasant Discoveries Quotes

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

Facing the truth about the past is not always a pleasant adventure

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.