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Quotes About Investigation

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
~ Carl Sagan
Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, "How did you do this? How can we catch you?"
~ Bex Taylor-Klaus
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
~ Will Durant
Science probes; it does not prove.
~ Gregory Bateson
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?
~ Leopold Kronecker
Experimenters are the shock troops of science.
~ Max Planck
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
~ Walt Whitman
Science is the search for truth.
~ Linus Pauling
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.
~ Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
~ Francis Bacon
Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
~ Stanislav Grof
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.
~ Walther Nernst
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
~ David Eagleman
Science is always inquiring.
~ Thabo Mbeki
There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study.
~ Charles Lederer
Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
~ Scott Pelley
a good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
~ Anne Roe
Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
Research is appreciation.
~ Willis R. Whitney
I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"
~ Paul Davies
The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.
~ Walter Reisch