Arthur Conan
Arthur Conan
fate rivers may
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.
time knowledge useless
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
math water logic
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
knowledge doctors doe
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
ignorance literature study
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
london empires idlers
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
science literature logic
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
track literature crime
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
example milk trout
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
justice facts proportion
Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
art men important
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
book reading writing
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
animal links able
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
life writing careers
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.