Investigation Quotes - Page 8

• In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1832). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.587

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• Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Labyrinth, Lightning, Obscurity

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.15 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Looks, Telescopes

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• I would say to people is, that investigation, as it has already been stated, is a marathon and not a sprint. But it is one of great concern to the American people. And so we're committed to keeping people informed.

  Barack Obama

  People, Marathon, Committed

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Limits, Just One

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.

  Jon Elster

  Order, Problem, Sometimes

  Jon Elster (1989). “The Cement of Society: A Survey of Social Order”, p.250, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.

  Wernher von Braun

  Believe, Reality, Medicine

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• Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.

  Ernst Mach

  Believe, Science, Support

  Ernst Mach (1893). “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles”

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• We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

  James Hunt

  Party, Giving, Looks

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

  Don King

  Kings, Men, Years

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• Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not be important. When, however, we come to the question of man's Being, this is not something we can simply compute by adding together those kinds of Being which body, soul, and spirit respectively possess--kinds of being whose nature has not as yet been determined. And even if we should attempt such an ontological procedure, some idea of the Being of the whole must be presupposed.

  Martin Heidegger

  Men, Ideas, Soul

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• The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

  Anaxagoras

  Science, Moon, Space

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• The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Math, Order, World

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• Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot. They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Halloween, Apology, Night

  "Partisan Anger Could Hobble Senate". abcnews.go.com. November 2, 2005.

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• In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

  Socrates

  Apology, Reputation, Found

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• The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Flavor, May

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• The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

  Benjamin Franklin

  Opportunity, Height, Foolishness

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• I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

  William Walker

  Thinking, Justice, Would Be

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• After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding.

  William Kunstler

  Encouragement, Kings, Believe

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• I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Religious, War, Believe

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• Most scientists assumethat life can only exist in physical life form. They send spaceships to other planets, looking for signs of physical life, not considering that life "may" also exist as energy or etheric form. Based on clairvoyant investigation, life also exists in etheric (energy) form; there are etheric beings of different degrees of awareness and development.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Energy, Degrees, Different

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• The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

  Denis Boyles

  Fruit Flies, America, Long

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• Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Essence, Doe, Definitions

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• If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Truth, Harm, Ought

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• What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, What Matters, Discovery

  Adyashanti (2010). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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