Quotes About Detection

Mr. Bucket and his fat forefinger are much in consultation together under existing circumstances. When Mr. Bucket has a matter of this pressing interest under his consideration, the fat forefinger seems to rise, to the dignity of a familiar demon. He puts it to his ears, and it whispers information; he puts it to his lips, and it enjoins him to secrecy; he rubs it over his nose, and it sharpens his scent; he shakes it before a guilty man, and it charms him to his destruction.

He had been instructed that once the hold with the cargo of skins was sealed, the ship's smoke-detecting system was to be turned off and was to remain switched off until the last passenger had disembarked in New York.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

interrogation and housing of potential threats

There are two types of serial killers.Those who want to get caught and those who really want to get caught

Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.

Theunis Piersma and his colleagues in the 1990s showed how red knots were able to detect tiny immobile bivalves (like mussels and clams) hidden in sand. When the bird pushes its beak into wet sand it generates a pressure wave in the minute amounts of water lying between the sand grains. This pressure wave is disrupted by solid objects, such as bivalves, which block the flow of water, thereby creating a 'pressure disturbance' detectable by the bird.

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from.

When an officer of the law detects a vice in himself, he knows enough to start looking for its presence in others.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Most of us someday will have detection devices in our home that will allow us to check for viruses and many other conditions.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

There's never just one cockroach in the kitchen.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.

MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug!

Lie detectors detect not lies, but the subconscious stress and fear that lying causes.

In another experiment Guericke connects a small glass sphere that's filled with air with a larger evacuated one. As he opens the valve between the two, air from the small sphere penetrates the large, empty volume; in the process, water droplets appear and sink to the bottom. This effect- the formation of droplets during rapid expansion has been used routinely in our century as a detection method for elementary particle tracks in an instrument called a cloud chamber.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.