Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

Paul Christopher

We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

Oliver Goldsmith

We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal aim, of establishing a theory, yet he has brought together such a multitude of facts relative to the history of the earth, and the nature of its fossil productions, that curiosity finds ample compensation, even while it feels the want of conviction.

Margaret Atwood

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Kevin Mitnick

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

Quentin Crisp

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

William James

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

Roger Ascham

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

Friedrich Engels

Without analysis, no synthesis.

Mitt Romney

I bathe in statistics.

Charles Dickens

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

Alan Greenspan

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Edmond de Goncourt

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Arthur Eddington

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

Mark Potter

He's been photographed from every angle. But detectives still have no idea who they are chasing, or how he got away with more than a half-million dollars.

Robert Orben

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

Mark Billingham

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.

Bill Toohey

It shows the detectives doing their job, doing it properly.

Charley Pride

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Wayne Anderson

Our detectives worked very hard on this, ... There was no smoking gun. It took a real team effort.

Joe Durkin

Once the offer was made for cash, detectives stepped in.

David Waltemeyer

Detectives interviewed multiple witnesses in this case. One told us that Matthew had spoke to the witness and told them that he was involved in the stabbing the victim.

David Lynch

You're right on the money with that, ... We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.