Quotes About Evidence

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

As a former prosecutor, I never presented a case in front of the grand jury that didn't result in an indictment. Bottom line: If a prosecutor wants to indict a case, the case gets indicted.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

Police officers must act quickly to seize wrongdoers and obtain evidence while protecting themselves and bystanders. It is easy to second-guess their search-and-seizure decisions in a secure courtroom.

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her?

Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

No one will presumably ever be able to prove or disprove such fundamental religious principles as the existence of God.

Sexual harassment is as difficult to prove as it is to disprove.

People are always demanding proof. These are things that are not easily proved.

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.