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Quotes about Detection

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Bucket and his fat forefinger are much in consultation together under existing circumstances. When Mr. Bucket has a matter of this pressing interest under his consideration, the fat forefinger seems to rise, to the dignity of a familiar demon. He puts it to his ears, and it whispers information; he puts it to his lips, and it enjoins him to secrecy; he rubs it over his nose, and it sharpens his scent; he shakes it before a guilty man, and it charms him to his destruction.
- Charles Dickens
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.
- Hill Harper
There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.
- George W. Bush
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
When you consider someone without assumptions, your inner antenna picks up a new signal. Instead of tuning in to someone's personality, you tune in to his or her essence. This essence is spirit, and when you detect it, the natural response is love.
- Deepak Chopra
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde