Arthur Conan Doyle — "The Germans are a brutal race, and must be crushed."
The Germans are a brutal race, and must be crushed.
The Germans are a brutal race, and must be crushed.
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"The more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is only the commonplace that truly puzzles."
"It is an error to argue in front of your data. You can insensibly twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
"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…"
"There are some who are good, and some who are evil. And the world is full of both."
"The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning."
Scottish physician and author whose Sherlock Holmes (created 1887) became the most-portrayed literary character in film and television history. Closely associated with G.K. Chesterton (Father Brown detective creator and Edwardian contemporary) and Wilkie Collins (earlier detective-fiction predecessor (The Moonstone)). For an intellectual contrast, see Harry Houdini, American escape artist and skeptic — Houdini publicly debunked the spiritualist mediums Doyle endorsed; Doyle insisted Houdini was secretly using real psychic powers. Their 1920s friendship-then-feud is the cleanest 'magician's debunking vs Sherlock-Holmes-author's credulity' irony in cultural history — the rationalist's creator believed the impossible.
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