Investigation Quotes

• The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Mind
  • Reason
  • Trouble

• I used to work as a private detective years and years ago. And my boss gave me this one very simple piece of advice about trying to figure out who to interview first in any investigation. His recommendation: Always pick the people who were fired. Pick the people who are pissed off.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Advice
  • Boss
  • Interview

• I'm a really judgmental person, and it just dumbs everything down. It doesn't create any room for interrogation or investigation.

  

  Cate Shortland
  • Persons
  • Judgmental
  • Interrogation

• Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

  

  Andrew Jackson Davis
  • Theory
  • Error
  • Investigation

• It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

  

  Hasan M. Elahi
  • Country
  • Discrimination
  • Investigation

• Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life only that which accords with your own reason and experience, after thorough investigation. Accept only that which contributes to the well-being of yourself and others.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Authority
  • Don't Believe

• There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and opportunity.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Opportunity
  • Stories
  • Investigation

• In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago...

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Questions
  • Investigation
  • Private business

• By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

  

  Johannes Stark
  • World
  • Step
  • Atom

• Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Life
  • Art
  • inspirational

• As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.

  

  Steven Hatfill
  • Help
  • Scientist
  • Investigation

• The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Relationship
  • Public
  • Gender

• Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Investigation

• If Trump wants to corruptly direct the conduct of an investigation in order to out an FBI source who was helping our government investigate Russian interference in our electoral processes, well, Article II of the Constitution begins with these terrifying words: 'The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.'

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • President
  • Constitution
  • Direct

• The way I really think is more like this "I am a scientist. I think the way to the truth is by investigation. I suspect that telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis and life after death do not exist because I have been looking in vain for them for 25 years. I have been wrong lots of times before and am not afraid of it".

  

  Susan Blackmore
  • Truth
  • Scientist
  • Investigation

• I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Science
  • Track
  • Publish

• Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Empathy
  • Trusting

• Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

  

  William Hanes Ayres
  • Interest
  • Investigation
  • Committees

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