Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
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.
nature humorous sarcasm
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
hands weather trying
There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.
gentleman furniture violence
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!