Interrogating Quotes

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty. View quote
Dennis Lindley
What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them. View quote
William A. Dembski
I'm very nerdy about my music, and I like interrogating people about what they put on playlists. View quote
Rebecca Hall
As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear. View quote
Eliot Spitzer
Science is [...] a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. View quote
Carl Sagan