Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Arthur Conan DoyleIt is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
Arthur Conan DoyleI have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
Arthur Conan Doyle