“truth hurts just like needles, but they both provide pathways to the cure!”
“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”
“We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles”
“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”
“Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.”
“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”