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Quotes About Investigation

Mindfulness and fearless presence bring true protection. When we meet the world with recognition, acceptance, investigation, and non-identification, we discover that wherever we are, freedom is possible, just as the rain falls on and nurtures all things equally.
~ Jack Kornfield
Science is an investigation into reality, how atoms interact and biological systems develop and stars give heat. Myth is also an investigation into reality, but into a reality of a different type: It informs us of the deepest desires and fears of the subconscious mind. The place where we really live.
~ Jack McDevitt
He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture
~ Jack McDevitt
thought I might have to prove later that she was my kill and not somebody else's, so I grabbed two fourteen-inch white plastic ties from the truck and cinched them around her neck for ID.
~ Unknown
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.
~ Jacob Bronowski
survey (n) a series of questions that investigates the opinions or experiences of a group of people
~ Unknown
Unofficially the cops are saying it's a suicide.
~ Unknown
The FBI says Angela Davis is one of America's Most Wanted.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I'd very much like to 'conclude' something from this experiment. Or that it should raise a question in my mind, and a commitment to get to the bottom of the matter, to investigate, to come up with an outline of the beginning of an answer, however ill-defined or trite it might be . . . But no. I'm here to see, hear, observe - to experience. Let others explain.
~ Unknown
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Time and again we have come across phenomena eminently worthy of being investigated - only to have them disappear before we could make eve a visual record... Without being unduly pessimistic, I would say that, for every success we have had in filming or recording a matter of scientific interest, we have had ten failures. - p 46 Life and death in a coral sea
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
It's available at Amazon in both ebook and paperback editions right here: THE DEAD AMERICAN
~ Unknown
Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.
~ Unknown
Similarly, in A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Burke depicted the investigation of the springs and the tracing of the courses of the passions as part of a larger search into 'the general scheme of things', in so far as the goal was to reduce the complex to 'utmost simplicity', and thus 'communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity'.
~ Unknown
Biology taught me that a field undergoing development should be investigated always from the viewpoint of its past development. Who today would study anatomy without embryology? In exactly the same way epistemology without historical and comparative investigations is no more than an empty play on words or an epistemology of the imagination.
~ Ludwik Fleck
I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.
~ Unknown
It is as though each of us investigated and made his own only a tiny circle of facts. Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as gewgaw. Still we are constantly in reaction against our ignorance. We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.
~ Unknown
scene of a murder in Peckham. It is standard procedure
~ Lynda La Plante
The very first thing you should do if you decide to poison someone's soup is to ascertain if they like pea soup
~ Unknown
Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.
~ Lynn Westmoreland
I'm a witch, not a Ouija board." --Rowan Gant (Perfect Trust: A Rowan Gant Investigation)
~ Unknown
Shuttle Murder Case.
~ M. William Phelps
The impact over the following centuries of Copernicus' leap away from the prejudices of anthropocentrism was felt across the whole spectrum of human investigation. We began to appreciate our place in the Universe was by no means central. Indeed, in many respects, it appeared to be almost peripheral.
~ John D. Barrow
Bahá'ís believe that the individual's right to unfettered enquiry is the most fundamental of all freedoms: 'There is nothing of greater importance to mankind than the investigation of truth... Look into all things with a searching eye' (Abdu'l-Bahá) This process should be free from imitation, heredity and blind faith: 'Set aside superstitious beliefs, traditions and blind imitation of ancestral forms of religion and investigate reality' (Abdu'l-Bahá)
~ Unknown