Quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. British writer and physician (1859–1930)

Death

More Quotes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius.
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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