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

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…

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I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who… — Michele Bachmann
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas. — Adriano Celentano
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken
It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science. — Ernst Mayr
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now… — Francis Crick
Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous. — Peter Drucker
Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous. — Alexander Hamilton
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than… — Muhammad Asad
There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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