#investigation

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#cease #compromises #fact #facts #investigation

Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. ↗

— Pat Brown

#aftermath #boost #community #control #coverage

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. ↗

— Blake Edwards

#facts #game #guessing #investigation #matters

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#advantage #assumes #because #claimed #equivalent

The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges. ↗

— Robert Luskin

#affirmed #charges #concerning #counsel #decision

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding... ↗

— Brian Greene

#insight #intelligence #investigation #process #science

In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#girls #half-moon #investigations #mystery #experience

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design. ↗

— Steve Albini

#band #conceptual #design #discovered #general

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

#any #country #directive #exert #general

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. ↗

— James Ellroy

#about #absolutely #am #being #brilliant