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• Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.183

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• What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

  Ernst Mach

  Bottom, Experiments, Courses

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• A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

  Antonin Artaud

  Would Be, Faculty, Certain

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.483, Univ of California Press

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• Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Degrees, Hemlock, Gowns

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.20, Vintage

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• David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.

  Howard Zinn

  Rays, Events, Done

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• In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

  David Hume

  Imagination, Vivid, Spheres

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• Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought

  Franz Boas

  Mind, Dawn, Development

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• Investigation is never complete.

  Peter Greenaway

  "The Pillow Book". Drama, 1996.

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• Today, we will hear from federal law enforcement agencies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, who will discuss the problem of ELF and ALF and law enforcement's reaction to their dangerous and destructive tactics. It is these tactics, particularly the widespread use of arson, which makes ELF and ALF the #1 domestic terror concern over the likes of white supremacists, militias, and anti-abortion groups.

  James Inhofe

  Law, White, Agency

  Senate Hearing 109-947 before Committee on Environment and Public Works, May 18, 2005.

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• And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Hero, Mirrors

  "The Greastest Phony America's Ever Known" by Ted Nugent, www.wnd.com. July 31, 2013.

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• The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

  Richard Posner

  Light, Punishment, Fake

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• This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Opposites, Bankers, Bourgeoisie

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• Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Nature, Men

  James Jackson Jarves (1960). “The art-idea”

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• In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Purpose, Branches

  William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

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• To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

  David Bentley

  Reality, Matter, Reason

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• The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Play, Office, Police

  "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. July 8, 2001.

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• In many cases, ignorance is a good thing : the mind retains its freedom of investigation and does not stray along roads that lead nowhither, suggested by one's reading. I have experienced this once again. ... Yes, ignorance can have its advantages; the new is found far from the beaten track.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Reading, Ignorance, Track

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1911). “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, London : A. and C. Black

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• Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Atheism, Hallucinations, Facts

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• In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Hands, Evil, May

  Andrew Dickson White (1960). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom”

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• The orthodox environmental theories [of heredity] have been accepted not because they have stood up under proper scientific investigations, but because they harmonize so well with our democratic belief in human equality.

  Arthur Jensen

  Environmental, Belief, Accepted

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• The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Mind, Normal

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can see that we need to allow enough opportunity for handling and investigation of objects to further intellectual development and just enough restriction required for family harmony and for the safety of the child.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Opportunity, Safety

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• It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

  Paul Douglas

  Cancer, Independent, Dark

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• One important object of this original spectroscopic investigation of the light of the stars and other celestial bodies, namely to discover whether the same chemical elements as those of our earth are present throughout the universe, was most satisfactorily settled in the affirmative. (1909)

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Light

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example, in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you--in color television, for instance.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Color, Space, Example

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