Animal Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It's circumstantial evidence, like finding a trout in the milk.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad &…

— Ernest Rutherford

“If the evidence is strong enough, you are convinced that there is no other reasonable answer. Your resulting sense of certainty feels like the…

— Robert Burton M.D

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

— Barton Gellman

Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the…

— Jodi Picoult

“In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial…

— Dada Bhagwan

“There is no individual in the world who is a single doer. It is “federal causes” i.e. it is collective causes called scientific circumstantial…

— Dada Bhagwan

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great…

— Mark Twain

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real…

— George Santayana

We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

— Alfred Wegener