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Quotes About Investigation

They quit trying too hard to destroy everything, to humble everything. They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. They never let science crush the aesthetic and the beautiful.
~ Ray Bradbury
She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why. That can be embarrassing. You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it.
~ Ray Bradbury
Me parece que los marcianos eran bastante ingenuos. —Sólo cuando les convenía. Renunciaron a empeñarse en destruirlo todo, humillarlo todo. Combinaron la religión, arte y ciencia, pues en verdad la ciencia no es más que la investigación de un milagro inexplicable, y el arte, la interpretación de ese milagro. No permitieron que la ciencia aplastara la belleza.
~ Ray Bradbury
at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
~ Ray Bradbury
la ciencia no es más que la investigación de un milagro inexplicable, y el arte, la interpretación de ese milagro.
~ Ray Bradbury
Actions of the Mind The last three unskillful actions the Buddha pointed out are actions of mind. These are subtler than actions of body or speech and take keen investigation to explore and understand. The first of them is covetousness, the wanting mind, the feeling that we never have enough.
~ Joseph Goldstein
And at last, the courtroom rail birds were going to get a chance to hear something titillating. About John Orr getting his mongoose milked by an honest-to-God cop.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Biblical archaeology is defined as the investigation of ancient material cultures with a view to illuminating the cultural milieus of biblical narratives.
~ Josh McDowell
After spending more than seven hundred hours studying this subject and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I came to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is either one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted on humanity, or it is the most important fact in history.
~ Josh McDowell
I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Three days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot close by the Greyhound bus station in Rome, New York.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Queen of England is coming for a visit, and they take a look and find out it's been replaced by a cheap plastic replica. The thief was never found.
~ Jude Watson
April May had been hacked.
~ Jude Watson
investigation. Whatever the outcome, the reporter knew that the denouement would be a stormy one. To
~ Jules Archer
for the first time in human history, nature has become a major subject of investigation, instead of being an object of veneration. Consequently, all the resources of the earth are being and will continue to be exploited. This has been referred to thus in
~ Wahiduddin Khan
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
~ Walt Disney
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
~ Walter Cronkite
Being willing to question is one thing; questioning well and effectively is another.
~ Warren Berger
Olsons P.I. 'Kenny Jones' as he approaches a barman in a notorious Bangkok Gay bar as part of an investigation - 'I was tempted to ask him if he had heard the one about the two condoms walking down Soi Rome when they see The Balcony Pub. One condom turns to the other and says 'Let's go in there and get shit-faced' -
~ Warren Olson
to pry too hard into somebody else's business,
~ Wayne D. Dundee
Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012
~ Weldon Burge
Why would anybody want to?
~ Weldon Burge
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
~ Wernher von Braun
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.
~ Wilhelm Reich