Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“The awful daring of a moment’s surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.”
—Robert Hooke (1635–1703)