We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans.
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I am a brain, The rest of me is a mere appendix.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
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It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
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The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The game is afoot.
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When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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