Holmes: "No data yet."
Watson: "You will have your data soon."
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A Study In Scarlet. (1887) Part 1, Chapter 3.
The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a
glance of an eye, to fathom a man's inmost thoughts. Deceit, according
to him, was an impossibility in the case of one trained to observation
and analysis. His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions
of Euclid. So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that
until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they
might well consider him as a necromancer.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle.
A Study In Scarlet Chapter II. "The Science Of Deduction"
[quoting from "The Book of Life" by Sherlock Holmes].
"From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the
possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of
one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is
known whenever we are shown a single link of it."
-- Arthur Conan Doyle.
A Study In Scarlet Chapter II. "The Science Of Deduction"
[quoting from "The Book of Life" by Sherlock Holmes].
[Sherlock Holmes:] I ought to know by this time that
when a fact appears to be opposed to a long
train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of
bearing some other interpretation.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle.
A Study In Scarlet Chapter VII. "Light In The Darkness"