Conjecture Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Holmes and Watson are on a camping trip. In the middle of the night Holmes wakes up and gives Dr. Watson a nudge. "Watson"…

— Daniel Klein Thomas Cathcart

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Well Holmes", I murmured, "have you found anything out?" He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean…

— Arthur conan doyle

“The world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true.”

— Siobhan Dowd

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that…

— Jude Law

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Do you remember," he said, "one of Holmes's little scores over Watson about the number of steps up to the Baker Street lodging? Poor…

— A.A. Milne

“WATSON: Then you are yourself inclining to the supernatural explanation. HOLMES: if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct, and we are dealing with forces…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak.…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a…

— Graham Moore

“A helpful exercise is to describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger who isn’t…

— Maria Konnikova

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes…

— Arthur Conan Doyle