Quotes About Investigation

We would rather explore the far side of the moon or the bottom of the ocean than the hidden depths within ourselves.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

William Hjortsberg

The inquest proceeded smoothly, evidence showing that Cork had acted reasonably. But the county attorney, Warren Evans, who was a crony of Robert Parrant, asked Cork a question that tilted the whole world of the inquest. "Why did you shoot six times, Sheriff? Shoot even after the man was down?

Even the wettest violence, in the end, is cooked down to the stuff of court cases; a ream of paper, a few exhibits, a dozen...witnesses. The world looks away, and why not?

Somebody stitched three holes in a line across that boy's chest and left nothing to indicate who or why.

Well," he said, "it's a very circumstantial case. There's the thumbprint,

Grand juries serve for months, and they figure out pretty quickly what the gig is all about: accuse, point your finger, name the wicked one. A

But before you can tell who someone was and how they died—and you won't always be able to tell—you start with the Big Four: sex, race, age, and stature. Whenever

Sitting just a foot or two away from a bloody body, Bill would soon find even himself overrun with flies, seeking any moist bodily fluids to feed on, any dark, damp orifices (including Bill's nostrils) to lay their eggs in. He quickly learned to wrap netting around his head to keep the flies out of his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

A crime you're trying to solve is a temporary

It had occurred to her that the ultimate expression of Tom Wolfe's 'saturation reporting' was possibly at hand: the copycat murder of the journalist, with the murderer finishing the piece and filing it, complete with photographs and videos.

The closer journalists came to great issues, the more vulnerable they felt.

Education was central to reporting.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry," said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina. "It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

The Malleus Maleficarum, the definitive guide for witch hunters published in 1486, wrote of a woman who stole dozens of penises, then hid them in a tree where they lived like birds in a nest.

David M. Jacobs

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.