Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DLwas an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 May 1859
CityEdinburgh, Scotland
dog night wish
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
book army doctors
In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon.
crime professors mathematical
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.
nature science ideas
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
humorous sarcasm names
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
business clients problem
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
mistake math science
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
education mistake math
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
brain appendix mere
I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.
curiosity statistics detectives
You see, but you do not observe.
justice clean young
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
men holmes one-man
What one man can invent, another can discover.
brother night men
The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes.
humorous eye sarcasm
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.