Louis Stokes Quotes

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.

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 wasn't a regular, avid 'Bones' fan, but I'd certainly seen it. I liked the banter; I liked the people and that world.

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

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.

The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'

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

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

I was pretty serious about pursuing forensic science as a profession. In fact, I pursued an internship at the office of the chief medical examiner here in New York.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

I am more into things like CSI, but then Glee started and I was like, "Oh this is different."

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

'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.'

There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

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

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.