What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.
Arthur Conan DoyleWhen a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan DoyleDetection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' โSherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".
Arthur Conan DoyleIt is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Arthur Conan Doyle