Quotes About Investigation

Stalking the girls' softball team again?

You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And

Laurie R. King

Pirate King, chapter 9

Lady Molly, perhaps?

You think he just died of natural causes?" "This is New York. Murder's a natural cause in this city.

Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

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

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.