Quotes About Investigation

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

I know the Blue Rose Task Force is charged with the investigation of matters that would make most average citizens—or the world's most expert neurophysicists, for that matter—flee from the room with their hair spontaneously combusting.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

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

On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

them. "Looking up an old mystery?" he'd asked.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.

I wouldn't bother searching the small storage spaces until we got down to the looking-for-all-the-body-parts phase.

Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.

It did seem unlikely that the dead human had been a GrayCris agent, because somebody had killed him. As far as I knew, I was the only one currently on the station looking for GrayCris agents to kill. I just realized I don't like the phrase "as far as I knew" because it implies how much you actually don't know. I'm not going to stop using it, but. I don't like it as much anymore.