Forensic Pathology Quotes

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

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.

It is very difficult to clinically diagnose someone who is dead.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.

'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

I don't think anyone takes the deaths in Midsomer as seriously as in say Wire In The Blood or Silent Witness. We're part of the old British 'whodunnit'. We're much more gentle and the deaths are sanitised, in a sense.

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.

Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life.

After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

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

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

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

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 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.

Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

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.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.