" 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 . But it is always there , whether we can 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 ? "