Bad habit Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny it. Finding…

— Andrew Lane

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

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

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.1 —SHERLOCK HOLMES, IN SIGN OF THE FOUR”

— Nat Greene

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

“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

“What was it Sherlock Holmes said about theories?” “‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data,’” I rattled off. And as…

— Donna Andrews

“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

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

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe