Analyzing Evidence Quotes

I don't like accepting things at face value.

It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

People confuse the word cynicism with the word skepticism. One is “you’re not gonna pay attention to anything, think everything’s screwed up, nothing’s ever gonna work out right”, that’s cynicism. But skepticism is, “you’re presented with evidence and you do your best to draw conclusions based on that”. So, as the saying goes, Bill Nye, do you believe in ghosts? No. However, I would love to see one. Bring it on. I’m open minded to the idea, but the more I look into it in a skeptical frame of thinking, the less likely it seems.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the evidence. To me, that's not dogmatic that's just... what else would you do?

I've always loved investigations.

Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Never assume the obvious is true.

History will show you not all the answers, but it’ll tell you a lot of the questions to ask.

We’ve learned our lesson. We are not going to take any more intelligence at face value.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?