We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEKeep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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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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Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
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Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.
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There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
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The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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The individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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