Quotes about Investigation

Man is incurably curious.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Stick a shovel in the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.

She'd love to go over him with a fine-toothed comb. Rummage around in him. Turn him upside down. Empty him out.

Thanks to a skewed court system, the offender gets more sympathy than the victim of his crime. Police officers are put on trial for doing their duty against a criminal with a rap sheet that reaches to the floor. Who's the one who broke the law—the criminal or the policeman? Police officers are investigated while criminals write books that make them rich, famous, and features them on television talk shows.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity" (C. H. Spurgeon).

Facing issues of this magnitude, it's unreasonable to think that anyone comes to the investigation with no personal hopes or preexisting beliefs.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

Every art or applied science and every systematic investigation, and similarly every action and choice, seem to aim at some good; the good, therefore, has been well defined as that at which all things aim.