Occupation: Physician Birth: May 22, 1859 Death: July 7, 1930
You know my methods. Apply them..
The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning..
The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of event….
if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death..
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it..
Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst..
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination..
Steel True, Blade Straight..
There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically..
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go..
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so ….
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human….
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another..
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data..
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either..
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth..
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact..
Well, well, my dear fellow, be it so. We have shared this same room for some years, and it would be amusing if we ended by sharing the same cell. (..….
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty….
When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth..
He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman..