Telling the truth has been one of the core missions of my life. I have spent the last thirty-five years pursuing this purpose, and I haven’t succeeded yet. This is because while it is arguably possible for humans to know the truth, it is not possible for us to express it in words. The best we can do is not knowingly lie.  We may experience something as true, but words are representations of the truth, not the truth itself. Just as a picture of a tree is not the tree, the description of something is not the thing itself. Of course, underlying this is whether human beings are even capable of knowing the real truth of things, a question that has perplexed both philosophers and scientists for centuries.