“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most serious point in the case is the disposition of the child." What on earth has that to do with it?"… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“WATSON: Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation. HOLMES: if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct, and we are dealing… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“...I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and as I knew well, he was never so… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
