Quotes About Investigation

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

The congressman sends out a tremendous subpoena, they want to see the e-mails, and they delete the e-mails. I can't think of anything, in terms of we're talking about, much more serious than that.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

The blood in the fine, white sand was only a few hours old, still gummy to the touch. The stench of loosened bowels soured the hazy air.

It plagues the young, this need to find reasons for things.

I checked the warehouse, but he wasn't there, either.

He had no sympathy for people who wanted to know how things worked, people who wanted to explore things, people who wanted to improve the systems they studied and dreamed about.

Peter Samson and his friends had grown up with a specific relationship to the world, wherein things had meaning only if you found out how they worked.

You look for lost property, not just people?

It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

Descartes y Bacon son solo dos de los filósofos que a lo largo de los siglos intentaron formular reglas para la investigación científica, algo que nunca funciona. Aprendemos a practicar la ciencia no imponiendo reglas acerca de cómo practicarla, sino a partir de la experiencia de trabajar en ella, impulsados por la satisfacción que obtenemos cuando nuestros métodos consiguen explicar algo.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

The rule was "No autopsy, no foul."

He reached out and took Owen's hand in his own. There was resistance at first, then a returning pressure. Othman ignored any presence that might reside in the land and instead tasted the flow of energy from the boy's body. He sensed untapped strengths, and something that had a flavour of familiarity about it. Before Othman could investigate this further, Owen pulled away.

The world is a fascinating place, and I travel within it. I'm come to places like this to unearth their secrets. There are always plenty.

Good boy. And while you're about tonight, go see if they've done a post mortem on that bloody dog yet. And don't spend all night in the arms of some prozzie down the docks. I'm not signing off any expense form with "blowjobs" on it.

You must determine the root cause of your problem, and just like running a car without the oil, you must ask yourself not what is happening, but what is missing.

A Holly Barker Novel

They ignored the fact that marriage is the most serious contract that can be undertaken. Such a union should not come about without investigation. My wife and I expected we would be well acquainted with a groom and his family.

Exposing the world's biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.