We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEHis Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
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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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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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To a great mind, nothing is little.
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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
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