evidence Quotes

“JUROR #8: The old man—“I’m gonna kill you,” body hitting the floor a second later—would have had to hear the boy’s words with the el [train] roaring past his nose!”

“I never spoke more plainly in my life. Try believing the evidence instead of insisting that the cameras must be at fault because what they saw was not what you expected.”

“I can give you convincing evidence of what I say, not words only, but what you value far more—actions.”

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.”

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.

“Listen, Tommy, your art, it is important. And not just because it’s evidence. But for your own sake. You’ll get a lot from it, just for yourself.”

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”

“Speculation was a waste of time: he must wait until there was more evidence.”

“The book is true, and if evidence seems to contradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.”

“I’ll find the evidence and before long Duke will get out. You’ll take his place. I’m coming your way, Carter.”

“Bite marks and hair analysis have been discredited in most advanced jurisdictions. Both belong to that pathetic and ever-shifty field of knowledge derisively known as defense and innocence lawyers as ‘junk science.’”

“I don’t think your brother did it – and I’m going to try to prove it.”

“After all, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

″...he and the Hunters spent many hours patiently tracking down evidence which was sometimes so conflicting and confusing that it was useless, and sometimes so coincidental that it was difficult to believe.”

“If it is his handwriting, there can be no doubt that he did it. I shall go personally to the prefect of the city this noon and denounce Rufus for malicious desecration of a temple.”

“It’s not exactly what you’d call evidence, but the old saying usually holds good, ‘Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.‘”