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.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEIt 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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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
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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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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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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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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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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
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A change of work is the best rest.
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The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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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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There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.
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We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.
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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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