- [addressing a group of police recruits]
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Gentlemen, you are about to enter the most important and fascinating sphere of police work: the world of forensic medicine, where untold victims of many homicides will reach back from the grave and point back a finger accusingly at their assailant.
- Sam Fujiyama: [During Quincy's rushed autopsy] This would be hard to take for a third year medical student.