Investigation Quotes

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Skepticism is the first step towards truth.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

Hillary Clinton was asked if she wiped the disc she was using for her email; she said, 'Do you mean with a damp cloth?' This, to me, is frightening.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I'm a conspiracy analyst.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

An investigation of the Kennedy assassination was a project I suggested when I first entered the White House [in 1969]. I had always been intrigued with the conflicting theories of the assassination. Now I felt we would be in a position to get all the facts. But Nixon turned me down.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

The Russians have to be celebrating with a minimal expenditure of resources and what they have accomplished. Of course, what's unfolded now, here, the leader of the lead of the investigation about potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign has been removed. So the Russians have to consider this as another victory on the scoreboard for them.

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

Theirs is a Spartan morality. Not the corruption but the discovery that constitutes the crime. Instead of applauding the investigators, they make war on the investigation. Instead of condemning the exposed and praising the exposure, they praised the exposed and condemned the exposure

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Question everything!

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.

If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.