Sarah Weinman Quotes

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

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Everyone is doing forensics.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

If I see one more forensics show, I'm gonna throw up.

I've always been interested in forensics and the way they solve things.

I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other writers who know a lot more than me about it. I know enough about it to do a little bit of background on laboratory techniques and stuff. But it kind of bores me.

The most common things I would go out for would be, like, 'the Lab Technician' on a crime procedural, usually an expert in either a medical or a computer-oriented field.

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.

'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.