Quotes About Investigation

Since Christianity is the truth, to perform an investigation for truth independently of it necessarily means that the investigation must adopt a false starting point.

if you attempt an investigation for truth that is independent from truth, then your investigation departs from truth at the very beginning, and there is no way that you will arrive at truth when you start out by running away from it. In bringing them to faith in Christ, God saves his elect from their initial intellectual waywardness.

Many Christians wish to consider their religious discussions with non-Christians as friendly dialogues between fellow human beings who are both interested in discovering truth through rational investigation. This is unbiblical and unrealistic. Indeed, many unbelievers put on a sincere and courteous front, but God looks at the thoughts and intentions of men, and not just their appearance and demeanor.

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.

Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Después de unos años de buena, leal y sincera investigación he acabado llegando a esta conclusión: la feminidad es una puta hipocresía. El arte de ser servil.

For love: a poet. For romance: a journalist.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

Mind if we check the other rooms to make sure?" an officer asked Dad. "Please do," said Father. "If there's a body lying around up here, I want to know about it.

a life without investigation is not worth living

The unexplored life is not worth living!

La mayoría de la gente no se ha dado cuenta de que no sabe lo que son realmente las cosas. Sin embargo, y como si lo supieran, no se ponen de acuerdo en los comienzos de su investigación, sino que, siguiendo adelante, lo natural es que paguen su error al no haber alcanzado esa concordia, ni entre ellos mismos, ni con los otros.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)

Thorndyke never forgets a likely case. He is sort of a medico-legal camel. He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them.

There's no harm in taking a peek.

will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer? The mirror's a great place to start

Just who are you planning to call? Ghostbusters?

Mind the dead man, my dear.

To dispose first and investigate later is an invitation to disaster, for once radioactive elements have been deposited at sea they are irretrievable. The mistakes that are made now are made for all time.

What're you—Jane Hawk?