The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.
Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.
“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.