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Quotes About Evidence

Although a mere unknown connection might not seem terribly damning evidence of anything to a rational being, I knew enough about the drug world to know that it has very few rational residents. They
~ Jeff Lindsay
The state of the blood around the wounds indicated that she had been alive for most of the cuts, gashes, and punches, an entire arsenal of attacks that left the corpse looking like she had spent a week at the Academy of Psychotic Assault.
~ Jeff Lindsay
from a shoe print
~ Jeffery Deaver
But, I added, duBois had found no evidence of any malfeasance. She'd spoken to dozens of officers and administrators within the department, armed with her pen and calculator. What Westerfield and Teasley had found, the money shifting from one account to another, seemed to duBois to be innocent.
~ Jeffery Deaver
I criminalisti adorano i sospetti che soffrono di malattie.
~ Jeffery Deaver
I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.
~ Jeffrey Archer
watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom. When he stepped down from the witness box, I knew Stan didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting off.
~ Jeffrey Archer
Once you know the truth, it's always obvious
~ Jennifer Crusie
A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
It is disingenuous to claim that a fetus is not a definite, living human being. Those who have seen ultrasound images of pre-born babies have eyewitness, empirical evidence of the unborns' living humanity.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
~ Mark Haddon
You know it doesn't work that way, T. I have to be touching the body or something that belonged to the victim. Photos only give me a paper cut…and the willies. (Simone)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is vital that our work be grounded in the evidence and thus accepted by the public.
~ Susan Collins
The product you produced is the evidence of the value in your life
~ Sunday Adelaja
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
~ Mark Twain
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.
~ Luanne Rice
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
~ Edmund Morgan
Evidence of epistasis from hybridization studies is more scarce.
~ Peter R. Grant
In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
~ Ronald Fisher
Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification.
~ Tom Udall
If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
~ John Ruskin
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.
~ John C. Wright