Quotes About Evidence

As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and throwing his body forward upon his great, teak desk buried his face in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning sobs.

You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.

whose merit is loudly celebrated by the doubtful evidence of his own applause.

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.

The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants.

Hacía apenas un mes que habían robado en el Louvre el famoso cuadro de Leonardo da Vinci. Habían detenido a Apollinaire, un escritor considerado anarquista, y después a un amigo suyo, un joven pintor desconocido, un tal Picasso. Seguían siendo sospechosos, pero hasta el momento no habían encontrado pruebas de su culpabilidad. Tampoco habían detectado ni rastro del cuadro.

A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Sensing the danger, we pull back as a church and refuse to deal with the evidence at all. Instead of moving ahead, smoothing the way and making the road safe, we have left the boulders in place and not put up guard rails. Thus the way remains dangerous.

If you can work through the evidence, your faith and your experience will be much stronger in the end – and you won't have to be afraid anymore of what you might see in Scripture in an unguarded moment. I

Though the evidence from Scripture for editing and compiling is obvious and irrefutable, our failure to deal with it bit by bit in the past places us in jeopardy when we see a rather massive dose of it all at once.

Nada era más ajeno a su realidad que el absurdo concepto del salvaje. La evidencia de que desconocían cosas que eran para mi esenciales y necesarias, estaba muy lejos de vestirlos de primitivismo.

Marijuana use was more likely to be linked with the death of children than almost any other factor, including domestic violence or mental illness. Once again, researchers who weren't looking for evidence that cannabis was linked to violence found it anyway.

Marijuana causes paranoia and psychosis. That fact is now beyond dispute. Even scientists who aren't sure if marijuana can cause permanent psychosis agree that it can cause temporary paranoia and psychotic episodes.

You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'?

I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence which caused many close observers of the Malcolm X phenomenon to declare in absolute seriousness that he was the only Negro in America who could either start a race riot-or stop one. When I once quoted this to him, tacitly inviting his comment, he told me tartly, "I don't know if I could start one. I don't know if I'd want to stop one.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to make up such a sum. Always supposing that it wasn't one of a kind. Panic was no longer merely rearing. It was thundering through her at full throttle. There was only one thing to be done, she realized. The mature, responsible, adult thing to do. Hide the evidence.

He was a child, but his mind was already laden like a museum, where old and new specimens, facts and figures, lived together as evidence of his own personal history.

There is no evidence that any amount of homework improves the academic performance of elementary students.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling.

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.