We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLESkill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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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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One must wait till it comes.
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A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
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We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.
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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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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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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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