Arthur Conan DoyleThinkers

Action is capable of being commanded, even if love isn't.

Attraction is, along with repulsion one of the great cosmic primary forces, pulling apart and forcing apart molecules and humans alike, and thus taking love away from the poets and bringing it within the domain of true science.

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk.

The City is not the embodiment of sin it is so often made out to be. The lowest and vilest alleys of london do not in fact present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Cleverness is always potentially dangerous. It is a wicked world when a clever man turns his brain to crime.

A Client is a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

The Countryside is not just smiling and beautiful and presents no less dreadful a record of sin than does the lowest and vilest alleys of london.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

A Crime is harder to bring home the more featureless and commonplace it is.

Data is as essential to deduction as clay is to making bricks.

A Deed is a matter of no consequence as compared with that which one can make people believe one has done.