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


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The surrounding nature is the best erudite master to teach us the basics of living.
ANUJ SOMANY I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthu...
HA-JOON CHANG Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reaso...
GRAHAM MOORE In the darkest corner of a darkened room, all Sherlock Homes stories begin. In the pregnant dim of g...
GRAHAM MOORE Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
JACQUES LIPCHITZ J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome...
JOHN LLOYD Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan]...
JOHN HODGMAN I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH It occurred to me the other day that Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, one of the great f...
FRANCIS WHEEN If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in o...
H. P LOVECRAFT We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman shoul...
JOHN DARNIELLE I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting ...
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Animals add beauty to nature but,we humans treat them as if we are animals by nature.
SRISHTI JAIN Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a ...
RAFAEL YGLESIAS This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange,...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as the...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. ...
HILARY MANTEL We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must n...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To me, Mother Nature isn't nearly as scary as human nature.
PAULA STOKES Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that de...
T.H. WHITE Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cu...
HONORE DE BALZAC The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact ...
VIRCHAND GANDHI Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as...
DANTE ALIGHIERI The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere e...
CORLISS LAMONT Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are consci...
IMMANUEL KANT Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
FRANCIS BACON If the Martians can translate this and interpret it, it will give them an interesting view of human ...
PATRICK MOORE If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm...
OSWALD THEODORE AVERY Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and o...
EDWARD THORNDIKE To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living hear...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real...
BILL NYE Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
EDUARDO GALEANO People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we l...
SAUL BELLOW There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather tha...
ROBERT BORK Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wis...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living he...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the pri...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never as...
ALAN WATT Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, end...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to becom...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ...
SUSAN GRIFFIN God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal...
E. STANLEY JONES The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather...
ROBERT BORK Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
ABRAHAM MASLOW As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...
AKIRA KUROSAWA The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Nature is as uniform as variant.
MAHRUKH They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to ...
WILLIAM LAW Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be ord...
XUN KUANG We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority
ALFRED ADLER Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous sys...
DAVE FOREMAN Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
HENRY ADAMS Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influ...
JULIAN BARNES We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading n...
MARK TWAIN Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which origi...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G.I. GURDJIEFF As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.
MASANOBU FUKUOKA As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibili...
A J TOYNBEE And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men ha...
HERACLITUS The new media are not bridges between man and nature; they are nature.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Our role as judges is to interpret the law.
THOMAS HARDIMAN Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature
ADOLF HITLER Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explore...
TERENCE MCKENNA Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the gr...
THOMAS F. KENNEDY Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
SONIA JOHNSON Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities...
LYSANDER SPOONER In a way, science might be described as paranoid thinking applied to Nature: we are looking for natu...
CARL SAGAN Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
JOHANNES KEPLER I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalenc...
ARTHUR KEITH If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that ...
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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to c...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman."

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ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking int...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The game is afoot.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE You see, but you do not observe.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and su...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth fo...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE To begin at the beginning.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politic...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE