{"quotes":[{"text":"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes","tags":["time","me","investigation "],"id":463,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes"},{"text":"If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.","author":"Tana French","tags":["broken-harbor","detective","investigation","metaphor","murder","tana-french"],"id":9202,"author_id":"Tana+French"},{"text":"The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.","author":"Clarence Darrow","tags":["doubt","fear","investigation","skepticism","wisdom"],"id":51736,"author_id":"Clarence+Darrow"},{"text":"Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.","author":"Sara Teasdale","tags":["investigation","result","save "],"id":56110,"author_id":"Sara+Teasdale"},{"text":"The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene’s excitement. She urged it onward: 'Fly, horse, fly!","author":"Hunter Murphy","tags":["carriage","horse","humor","imogene","investigation","murder","murder-mystery"],"id":71747,"author_id":"Hunter+Murphy"},{"text":"Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to be above average, let them to believe that it was others who were affected by this case but not them. Everyone thought they had the quintessential ability to detach themselves from the cases they were working, even if the victim looked and behaved exactly like their son, daughter, niece or nephew.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["case","confidence","detachment","hubris","investigation","murder"],"id":80779,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"Indeed, to this day, I think if you blame everything on the government, you're not just wrong, you're being reckless. It's as silly as blaming everything on the Freemasons, or the Illuminati, or insert-bad-guy-here. But I do believe that someone must ask the hard questions, especially of our elected officials as well as powerful men who become members of so-called secret societies. Remember: Governments don't lie. People lie. And if you want the real story, you need to find out more about those people.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["blame","blaming-others","conspiracies","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","finding-truth","government","guilt","history","investigation","journalism","lies","lying","question-everything","questions","skepticism","skeptics","truth"],"id":93377,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).. . . I stress that my use of the term 'science' is not limited to the natural sciences, but includes investigations aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of factual matters relating to any aspect of the world by using rational empirical methods analogous to those employed in the natural sciences. (Please note the limitation to questions of fact. I intentionally exclude from my purview questions of ethics, aesthetics, ultimate purpose, and so forth.) Thus, 'science' (as I use the term) is routinely practiced not only by physicists, chemists and biologists, but also by historians, detectives, plumbers and indeed all human beings in (some aspects of) our daily lives. (Of course, the fact that we all practice science from time to time does not mean that we all practice it equally well, or that we practice it equally well in all areas of our lives.).","author":"Alan Sokal","tags":["argument","biology","chemistry","cogency","critical","definition","detectives","empirical","experiment","fallibilism","historians","investigation","knowledge","life","methodology","natural-science","observation","physics","practice","science","testing","worldview"],"id":100628,"author_id":"Alan+Sokal"},{"text":"Supposing is good, but finding out is better.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["investigation","learning","supposition"],"id":106682,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Jackson watched in amazement that she had convinced the driver to handle the vehicle in such a way. Tourists began taking pictures of Imogene, standing tall in the seat while the driver guided the horse with the reins. She kept her eye trained on Catfish, describing his every step as if the driver couldn’t see the runner for himself … Catfish stopped at the “T” in the road up ahead. He was heaving air, and Imogene said, “We’ve worn him out, son. Keep on him. He’s ours for the catchin’.","author":"Hunter Murphy","tags":["chase","imogene","investigation","mystery","mystery-novels"],"id":119512,"author_id":"Hunter+Murphy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}