Quotes About Trial

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Crosicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel. "Say what you like, trial by jury is a sound system

Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness!

I looked at Poirot in silent amazement. The colossal cheek of the little man! Who on earth but Poirot would have thought of a trial for murder as a restorer of conjugal happiness! "I perceive your thoughts, mon ami," said Poirot, smiling at me. "No one but Hercule Poirot would have attempted such a thing! And you are wrong in condemning it. The happiness of one man and woman is the greatest thing in all the world.

One counsel's questioning brings out testimony as to the resemblances, the defence brings evidence to show dissimilarity.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Catch One: The Case of Edmund Rosner

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

No trial, no sensational headlines, no mud-slinging just to sell newspapers without the slightest regard for truth or fair play or for the feelings of innocent people.

Josie walked slowly toward the jury. She stood close as if she was

Festus allowed Paul to go to Rome because Paul claimed to be a Roman citizen. Paul was born in Tarsus, a city whose inhabitants had been granted Roman citizenship by Mark Anthony a century earlier. As a citizen, Paul had the right to demand a Roman trial. a Festus, who would serve as governor for an extremely brief and tumultuous period in Jerusalem , seemed happy to grant him one, if for no other reason than simply be rid of him.

As with everything else in the gospels, the story of Jesus's arrest, trial, and execution was written for one reason and one reason only: to prove that he was the promised messiah. Factual accuracy was irrelevant. What mattered was Christology, not history.

Either the threat posed by Jesus to the stability of Jerusalem is so great that he is one of only a handful of Jews to have the opportunity to stand before Pilate and answer for his alleged crimes, or else the so-called trial before Pilate is pure legend. There is reason to suspect the latter.

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error. The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster. The evolution of the capacity to simulate seems to have cumulated in subjective consciousness.

The nervous system has a rule that says, 'Any trial action that is followed by reward should be repeated. Any trial action that is followed by nothing, or, worse, followed by punishment, for example pain, should not be repeated.

The trouble with overt trial is that it takes time and energy. The trouble with overt error is that it is often fatal. Simulation is both safer and faster.

operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

Daha önce bir araya getirilmemiÅŸ iki kiÅŸiyi bir araya getirebilirsiniz. Bu bazen ateÅŸle çal??an bir balona, hidrojenle çal??an bir balonu baÄŸlaman?n ÅŸu ilk denemesinde olduÄŸu gibi bir ÅŸeydir; yere çak?l?p yanmay? m? yeÄŸlersiniz yoksa yan?p yere çak?lmay? m?? Ama bazen de deneme baÅŸar?l?r ve yeni bir ÅŸey yarat?l?r dünya deÄŸiÅŸir.

One day in Auschwitz, a group of Jews put God on trial. They charged him with betrayal and cruelty. Like Job, they found no consolation in the usual answers to the problems of evil and suffering in the midst of this current obscenity. They could find no excuse for God, no extenuating circumstances, so they found him guilty and, presumably, worthy of death. The Rabbi pronounced the verdict. Then he looked up and said that the trial was over, it was time for the evening prayer.

A warlord who neglected his warriors had no business calling himself a warlord. No matter his trial, no matter his private pains, a warlord always place his warhost first.