It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes
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The game is afoot.
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This is quite a three-pipe problem.
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Tether My Free-Wheeling Mind
Finally finished reading The Valley
Of Fear - I freaked out, ran shouting
through the house: Sherlock Holmes
is the best, once again, history of early
America, Pinkerton Men, lawlessness,
Arthur Conan Doyle changing me into
a convert for law and order
Helped me to cross the border between
wishing for freedom and being responsible,
now I really have nothing else to read, to-
morrow I must go to the library or die in
agony and sorrow, being without mental
stimulation would turn me into the devil
himself, breathing fire and brimstone
A whirling dervish of impatience to get
my hands on something that will tether
my free-wheeling mind…
"Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Illustrated
Novels" - Reprinted in 1991 Reed International
Books Ltd.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Arthur Conan Doyle in The Sign of Four (1890)
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
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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.
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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
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Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
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There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
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You see, but you do not observe.
Arthur Conan Doyle in A Scandal in Bohemia (1892)
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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
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A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
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