Investigation Quotes - Page 6

• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Principles, Influence

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

  Felix Klein

  Finals, Fundamentals, Firsts

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• The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Flying, Ufo, Has Beens

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• We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Needs, Facts, Merit

  "Justice Department Investigates Possible Collusion In U.S. Airline Industry". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 1, 2015.

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• Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Determination, Science, Simple

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Joseph Le Roy Hayden (1917). “Steinmetz Electrical Engineering Library: Engineering mathematics; a series of lectures delivered at Union college (3rd ed. 1917)”

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• I think the American people were saying we do not want to have further investigation. We want to close this off. They clearly made a separation between the personal conduct .. They want Congress to wrap it up, get it behind them, so we can get on to the issues that the president has been working with Congress.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

  Fuller Albright

  Taken, Science, Animal

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• I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan.

  Ali Velshi

  Thinking, America, Roots

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• WikiLeaks released new Clinton campaign e-mails revealing how friendly Hillary [Clinton] was with the attorney general, Loretta Lynch.This was only months prior to Lynch's investigation of Hillary's illegal secret e-mail server that gave foreign governments access to our confidential information.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Secret, Friendly

  Source: time.com

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• Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.

  Jo Bonner

  Justice, September 11, Ongoing

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• I think [Donald Trump] is going to be inaugurated this week. I have great concerns, and apparently Republicans do as well, and there's going to be an investigation about the role that Russian hacking played in getting him elected.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, Roles, Hacking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The report begins by asserting that it is a 'comprehensive' look at Benghazi resulting from an intensive investigation of nearly two years. Neither claim is true. Instead, the report is a reflection of a dysfunctional committee and the reluctant, ad hoc approach to Benghazi of its leadership and top staff.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Reflection, Years, Two

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• Much has already been learned about the arrogance of the IRS from the House investigations of the agency's targeting of conservatives. The revelations emerged despite strenuous efforts by Democrats in Washington and by the IRS itself to block inquiries and deny the existence of political targeting - targeting that the former head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, eventually acknowledged and apologized for in May 2013.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Block, Agency, Organization

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• Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

  Cleta Mitchell

  Abuse, Irs, Notable

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• See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi".

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• The relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Interesting, Voting

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.11, Modern Library

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• The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Reality, Visionaries

  Leonard Shlain (1991). “Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light”, William Morrow & Company

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• Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  Edwin Conklin

  Cells, Development, May

  "The Mechanism of Heredity". "Science", Vol. 27, No. 691, January 17, 1908.

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• I've been called a spy of Israel since 1996, and since I made my documentary film in 2000 the FBI has investigated me as an agent of Iraq. The FBI has also opened up an investigation into my wife calling her a KGB spy.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Israel, Kgb

  "Exclusive: Scott Ritter in His Own Words". Interview with Massimo Calabresi, content.time.com. September 14, 2002.

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• I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Thinking, Government, Air

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• I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.

  Mike Leigh

  Cutting, Guy, Feelings

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• Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

  Jill Lepore

  Imagination, Empathy, Study

  Jill Lepore (2011). “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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