Science Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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