'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

It is more than possible; it is probable.

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for

Anything is better than stagnation.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.