When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEWe balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
More Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
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The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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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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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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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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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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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.
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As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
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I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.
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The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
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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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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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There’s a light in a woman’s eyes that speaks louder than words.
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