I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle More Quotes From Arthur Conan Doyle 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 that I can see with my naked eye. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorouseye You see, but you do not observe. Arthur Conan Doyle statisticsdetectivescuriosity Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle naturescienceideas What a lovely thing a rose is! Arthur Conan Doyle lovely-thingslovelyrose It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. Arthur Conan Doyle cloudsspringmen Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations. Arthur Conan Doyle blank-mindstepsrunning The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it. Arthur Conan Doyle best-wayactingway It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle mistakemathscience No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle constitutiontiredfeelings The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. Arthur Conan Doyle progressvirtueinterest I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousnature Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousbrother Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person. Arthur Conan Doyle holmescasesliterature To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. Arthur Conan Doyle piecesracingbrain Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion? Arthur Conan Doyle creditfashionpeople That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. Arthur Conan Doyle knownterror It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment. Arthur Conan Doyle san-franciscospiritualamerica The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest. Arthur Conan Doyle fatewayworld What one man can invent, another can discover. Arthur Conan Doyle one-manholmesmen There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. Arthur Conan Doyle holmescases
