Dr watson Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

— Peter Weir

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

“How did the System Holmes machine become . . . a System Watson? Simple. Holmes says it himself: he had lost interest in the…

— Maria Konnikova

“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

“What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? ‘Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ ” “I reject…

— Douglas Adams

Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking…

— 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

“That, in a nutshell, is the scientific method: understand and frame the problem; observe; hypothesize (or imagine); test and deduce; and repeat. To follow…

— Maria Konnikova

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. —Sherlock Holmes,”

— Amy Webb

“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

“The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex—not that which never…

— Peter Lucas