Investigation Quotes - Page 3

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Needs, Obscure, Obvious

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• The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.

  John William Strutt

  Believe, Science, May

  "Introduction to Waterston's Memoir 'On the physics of media that are composed of free and perfectly elastic molecules in a state of motion'". Philosophical Transactions, p. 1-5, rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org. January 1, 1892.

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• I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

  Bob Woodward

  Patience, Believe, Television

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• Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  September 11, Half, Terrorism

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• Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

  Kurt Lewin

  Teaching, Science, Ideas

  Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd

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• Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making treatise on the comparative morphology of plants. This book, studied while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, was undoubtedly the most important factor in determining the trend of my botanical investigation for many years.

  Douglas Houghton Campbell

  Book, Science, Years

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• [In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school" to which the geologist belongs and on the objectivity of his investigations. Hans Cloos called this way of interrogation "the dialogue with the earth," "das Gesprach mit der Erde."

  Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

  School, Science, Objectivity

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• In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.

  Martin Ryle

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Science

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• Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely established that in its deepest places, for instance, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the Earth's crust is devoid of granite stratum. The same may be said quite confidently about the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Could the interpretation of these data be that inland seas were the primary stage of the formation of oceanic basins?

  Vladimir Belousov

  Ocean, Science, Sea

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• One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Independent, Science, Moon

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• The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

  Robert Barany

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Canals

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• Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.

  John Ashcroft

  Needs, Agents, Way

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• The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

  Tina Brown

  Monday, Past, Clouds

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• And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Way, Duty, Documents

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• Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

  Stanislav Grof

  Unbiased, Scientism

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.230, SUNY Press

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• Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

  Tony Greig

  Team, Assistants, Lawyer

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

  Jim Garrison

  Trying, Campaigns, Waste

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• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Interest, Cosmic

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• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Country, Thinking, Rights

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• We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

  Michael Baden

  New York, States, County

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• The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.

  Stan Freberg

  Blue, Color, Riding

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• With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Years, Mind, Twenties

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• 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

  Warfare, Defense, Way

  "Text of Hatfill's Statement", www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.

  Louis Stokes

  Firsts, Conspiracy, Found

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• The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

  William Osler

  Teacher, Should Have, Age

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.326, Duke University Press

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