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Detective fiction7 quotes
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1893You see, but you do not observe. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1891With method and logic one can accomplish anything! — Agatha Christie · 1924The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892All 7 quotes →Children's literature1 quote
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who. — Rudyard Kipling · 1902Science fiction1 quote
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. — Arthur C. Clarke · 1951