Best 15 quotes in «forensics quotes» category

Context is everything.

All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way.

Context is everything. - Prof Nick Fennimore

Attribution is an enduring problem when it comes to forensic investigations. Computer attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world and routed through multiple hijacked machines or proxy servers to hide evidence of their source. Unless a hacker is sloppy about hiding his tracks, it's often not possible to unmask the perpetrator through digital evidence alone.

I understand Medicine, Forensics... I can learn it in the frame of 1-2 years... No Problem in that.

…forensic science was facing a sudden reckoning. The advent of DNA analysis in the late 1980s had not only transformed the future of criminal investigations; it also illuminated the past, holding old convictions, and the forensic work that helped win them, up to scrutiny. Rather than affirming the soundness of forensic science, DNA testing exposed its weaknesses. Of the 250 DNA exonerations that occurred by 2010 throughout the United States, shoddy forensic work — which ranged from making basic lab errors to advancing claims unsupported by science — had contributed to half of them, according to a review by the Innocence Project. The sheer number of people who were imprisoned using faulty science called into question the premise of forensics itself.

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.

She saw a lone figure running across the dark parking lot toward her, a weapon in his hands. ...*Not again.* And this time she was all alone. No Cole Walker, heroic police detective and star in too many of her fantasies, to save her.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

No doubt every crime scene is a disaster for someone, it’s only a question of scope.

We can all see, but can you observe?

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to make pictures that whilst they are not documentary in the traditional sense, they are still documents, like forensic traces.

We’re still waiting on the lab work.” “It was a shotgun what did it, though. The same one?” Dorn popped an eyebrow. “Good eye. You in forensics?” “Not really.” He had killed a lot of people with shotguns.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.