Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
