Quotes About Investigation

Then you probably won't know this Reacher guy," he said."According to Mrs. Jacob, he was an Army officer. So I checked, and she was right. He

Night School

4. Correr a ciegas (Running Blind)

16. El caso (The Affair)

They're coming at it through the name. The big guy is all over town, asking questions." He got a long plastic crackle in exchange, calm, mellifluous, and reassuring. He said, "OK, sure," but he didn't sound sure, and then he hung up the phone.

19. Personal (VIII Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca, 2014)

21. Escuela nocturna (Night School)

Are we going different places?" "Of course we are," she said. "You're looking at the crime scene and I'm going to the DGSE." I nodded. The Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure. The French version of the CIA.

No se le va a escapar. Está muerto. Además, tampoco han encontrado ningún médico forense sobrio de momento.

If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for His creatures, then it would be natural for Him to want them to explore it, to measure it, to investigate it, to appreciate it, to be inspired by it--and ultimately, and most importantly, to find Him through it.

Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective —that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.

In dealing with history, he added, all sorts of things are possible, but not all possible things are equally probable.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

No human investigation can be called real knowledge if it does not pass through mathematical demonstrations; and if you say that the kinds of knowledge that begin and end in the mind have any value as truth, this cannot be conceded, but rather must be denied for many reasons, and first of all because in such mental discussions there is no experimentation, without which nothing provides certainty of itself.

I have to admit, this place gives me the creeps.' [said Scully]. 'The creeps?' said Mulder with a smile. 'Just because a bunch of big, strong men cleared out so fast they didn't finish their food? And then vanished into thin air? Don't be silly. I'm sure there's a nice scientific explanation. Oh, sorry Scully. You're the one who's supposed to be telling me that, right?

With his bare hands Mulder dug at the loose earth. After a minute, he said, 'I've go it. I just have to pull it out and-' He got no further. He and Scully were blinded by a high power flashlight. When their vision cleared, they saw the sheriff looming over them, brandishing an ugly-looking .45. 'May I ask what you're doing?' he growled. Mulder held up what he had found in the earth: a piece of raw potato. 'Exhuming your potato,' was all he could say.

They vanished in the same forest without a trace. Not one of them was ever found or heard from again.' 'And you suspect what?' Scully asked. 'Bigfoot maybe?' 'Not likely,' Mulder answered deadpan. 'That's a lot of flannel to choke down. Even for Bigfoot.' Scully sighed. She should have known better than to joke about Bigfoot to Mulder. Bigfoot wasn't a joke to him.

Somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.

Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers. As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's left of my manicure, Petra said.

Es que en ese colegio tuyo no te enseñaron a abordar una investigación? - No. Pero sé recitar el «Himno de batalla de la República» mientras hago martinis. - Lloro por el futuro.