Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury,… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
“TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“ She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and… — J.D. Bernal Copy Share Image
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The AMA virtually stopped the Rife treatment in 1939, first by threatening the physicians using Rife's instrument, then by forcing Rife into… — Barry Lynes Copy Share Image
“Between 1405 and 1433, Zheng led seven huge armadas from China to the far reaches of the Indian Ocean. The largest of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I do believe in this evolution of consciousness as the only thing which we can embark on, or in fact, willy-nilly, are… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Heaven works extensively with the fact that we're currently placed here in 3D as the 'spirit' part of what is to come.… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Saturday morning was their unrestricted television time, and they usually took advantage of it to watch a series of cartoon shows that… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend… — Pankaj Patel Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me… — Andrea Bouchaud Copy Share Image
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“A strange mixture of disbelief and complete trust washed over me. On the one hand, I had no way to explain what… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image