We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThe love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
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Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
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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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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
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I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
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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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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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There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.
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It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
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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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I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
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I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
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