Investigator Quotes

49 quotes by 44 authors

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. — Claude Bernard
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary that we may… — Theobald Smith
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in… — Michael Faraday
When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction.… — Arthur Eddington
Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he… — Walter Bradford Cannon
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator.… — Claude Bernard
But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable.… — William Bayliss
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has… — Unknown Author
As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls… — Peter Davenport
I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. — Joe Pantoliano
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness. — Claude Bernard
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified… — Tony Greig
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as… — Richard Lewontin
The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator… — Michael Crichton
As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark… — Spencer W. Kimball

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