Confession is therapeutic — a problem shared is a problem halved

Confession is wise — A fault confessed is half redressed.

Confession is as healing medicine to him who has erred.

Confession is unwise — Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.

A Discovery is great, if it is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Discovery is secondary to persuasion — In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Discovery is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Evidence is generalizable — You may know by a handful the whole sack.

Evidence is the substance of things of things not seen.

Evidence is sometimes as good as proof — One swallow does not make a summer, but one camel makes a desert.

Evidence is not equivalent to proof — One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.