CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Grissom: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. This quote is an encouragement to pay attention to circumstantial evidence. In this case, the evidence is strong that the trout didn't get there by accident--someone put it there--milk not being a natural habitat for fish. Though, perhaps, a deed is unobserved, its execution can sometimes be safely inferred from the facts.

Grissom: There's an easy solution to every human problem, neat, plausible, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English and the exact words are: "There is always an easy solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and wrong". This essay was originally published in the New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917, and reprinted in Prejudices: Second Series (1920).

Warrick: Nice try Nostradamus Warrick is teasing Nick for his attempt to predict the future. Nostradamus (born Michel de Nostredame in 1503) was a French healer and seer, who famously published a number of prophecies, many of which are supposed to have come true (though the links between prophecy and reality are often tenuous at best). Despite the fact he first published his prophecies between 1555 and 1568, they are still in print today and many people still believe he was able to predict major world events.

Episode Title: Chaos Theory The title of this episode refers to the now well known idea that the tiniest difference in the starting point of a situation can lead to huge differences in the outcome.