“I shall never do that,' I answered; 'you have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and… — 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
“I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a conjuror gets no credit when once he… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“You have brought detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought in this world.” My companion flushed up… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — 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