Quotes About Investigation

When you love the Self and nothing else, you go beyond the selfish and the unselfish. All distinctions lose their meaning. Love of one and love of all merge together in love, pure and simple, addressed to none, denied to none. Stay in that love, go deeper and deeper into it, investigate yourself and love the investigation, and you will solve not only your own problems but also the problems of humanity. You will know what to do.

Three hours later, she was sitting across from the local sheriff, Jim Peabody, whose face looked like the last piece of jerky in the jar.

Getting to the root cause to eliminate problems and defects is close to the heart of lean manufacturing.  Just solving a problem to allow it to occur again is such a waste of human ingenuity.  Dr. Shingo would want us to spend a little more time up front, to investigate causes a little deeper to insure that the same problem would never happen again.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

discovery rather than invention, exploration rather than creation.

The cops liked to solve cases by "discovering" evidence against whomever they decided must be guilty.

Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

It takes the Police a long time to establish things that seem obvious.

He felt the pull of investigation and the pull of escape, and swore with frustration.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief.

use questions to raise questions

Non indagate le cose a partire dalle parole, ma indagate le parole a partire dalle cose

I went over and rolled the woman over on her back. She couldn't have been much over twenty-two or three; little, gray-eyed blonde. There was a knife in her side, under the arm. There was a .38 automatic near her outstretched hand. She was very dead.

Un detective mexicano era por definición un risueño accidente solitario.

I spent the rest of the night researching this guy.

One of the things I always tell the police and families is that while everything is possible, not all things are probable. You can't waste a lot of investigative effort on an extremely unlikely scenario; you have to stay with what makes sense.

The evidence should guide you to a theory; you should not be allowing the theory to guide the evidence upon which you focus.

Is someone going about the High Kirk killing folk? That'll do the pilgrim trade no good.

I don't like the way you keep turning up corpses – female corpses, at that – on St Mungo's land, Gil. We'll ha no more of them, if you don't mind.

In the real world, the Sergeant was tired of worrying and sick of cocoa. He was disturbed by feelings in his mind that he was not really himself at all. Several times he half-started out of his chair on an impulse to get out on the streets to ask the first person he met: "Where were you at ten past three on the morning of December the thirteenth, nineteen fifty-four"; just to prove to himself that he was still the Sergeant and that he knew how to do his duty.

Canadian hikers would be too polite to end up as bodies. Thus the bodies must not belong to random hikers.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway -- is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway? But curiosity is very nearly my besetting sin.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.