When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may...

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may...

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever...

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever...

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by...

I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget...

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget...

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

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

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be...

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be...

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact...

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact...

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or...

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or...

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are...

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always...

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most...

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.