Quotes About Investigation

Had the killer gotten to Iverson somehow? Was yet another person dead because of them?

Try Reiden," he said. "My God," Walter said, putting his own food aside and grabbing the pencil.

Other resources I relied on during my orphan train research were the Children's Aid Society; the New York Foundling (I attended their 140th homecoming in 2009 and met a number of train riders there); the New York Tenement Museum;

Operation Paget would lumber on for two years before finally issuing its 832-page report confirming the findings of the original investigation in France: that the driver of the car in which Dodi and Diana were passengers on the night of August 31, 1997, was drunk; that paparazzi contributed to the crash; and that all three people who died that night failed to buckle up.

when they hear hooves they look for zebras instead of horses

Thais have a saying about a frog living inside a coconut shell. The frog believes that the world inside the shell is the whole universe. In the private investigation business, Vincent Calvino had clients who like the frog. What they saw from inside their shell blinded them, made them unable to solve a problem. So they hired Calvino. He knew the drill. Shells offered comfort and security. Leaving could be a dangerous business.

A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.

You are a very interesting case, General. Do you know what fat file of evidence we have against you here?

Causa General

As British writer Gordon Burn wrote in Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son (one of the very few good books written about serial killers),

Imagination (is) to building a police case what mortar is to a bricklayer.

There's a pattern in every crime - something that give us (the police) an edge on the criminal's weakness, and we know he has a weakness or he wouldn't be a criminal.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Our job is to find out the truth, even if it is buried deep in the earth.

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Christians alone are not allowed to say anything to clear themselves, to defend truth, to save a judge from injustice. That alone is looked for, which the public hate requires—the confession of the name, not the investigation of the charge. …

Basta por ahora de polémicas, la ciencia no es una mera cuestión de erudición; está integrada al destino absolutamente personal del investigador.

To examine ourselves is good; but useless unless we also examine Environment. To bewail our weakness is right, but not remedial. The cause must be investigated as well as the result. And yet, because we never see the other half of the problem, our failures even fail to instruct us. After each new collapse we begin our life anew, but on the old conditions; and the attempt ends as usual in the repetition—in the circumstances the inevitable repetition—of the old disaster.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.

He portrays the labours of the etymologist in whimsical terms: 'In search of the progenitors of our speech, we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone, and find some in the valleys of Palestine, and some upon the rocks of Norway'. Johnson's

It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes is inherent in man's very nature.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.