- Meteor shower (Wikipedia)
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth’s surface. Very intense or unusual meteor showers are known as meteor outbursts and meteor storms, which produce at least 1,000 meteors an hour, most notably from the Leonids. The Meteor Data Centre lists over 900 suspected meteor showers of which about 100 are well established. Several organizations point to viewing opportunities on the Internet. NASA maintains a daily map of active meteor showers.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Truth (plato.standford.edu)
Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.
You can’t handle the truth!
Col. Jessup, A Few Good MenI’m here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.
Superman, Superman (1978)Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
Hecule Poirot in The Murder of Roger AckroydSir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli, Agricultural DistressParis flared — Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
Émile Zola, Paris (1898)If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Horace Mann Journal entry (29 October 1838)I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
- Gandhi dedicated his life to discovering and pursuing truth, or Satya, and called his movement satyagraha, which means “appeal to, insistence on, or reliance on the Truth”.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainGet your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark TwainIf you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark TwainIn order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
René Descartes (1644), Principles of PhilosophyMy little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 KJVThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32 NIV