Quotes about Investigation

Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have cirumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own I ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The notion that you have to hold something in your head seems to have been forgotten. It is an absurdity that children learn to investigate topics without having dates in their heads, or the facts.

Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken.

Statistics is not an exact science. It is an investigative technique.

If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.