-The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
-The Hound of the Baskervilles Chapter 3: “The Problem”
‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.
-A Scandal in Bohemia
‘There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.’
-The Bascombe Valley Mystery
‘Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.’
-The Sign of Four Chapter 1: “The Science of Deduction”
‘How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth?’
-The Sign of Four Chapter 6: “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
‘…when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
-The Blanched Soldier
‘It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’
-The Beryl Coronet
“Data! Data! Data!” he cried impatiently. “I can’t make bricks without clay.”
-The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
‘I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?
-The Sign of Four
‘What one man can invent another can discover.’
-The Adventure of the Dancing Man
"Excellent!" I cried.
"Elementary," said he.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)
Watson and Holmes in "The Crooked Man"
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