The ideal reasoner would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which had preceded it but also all the ramifications which would follow.
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"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."
"Life is a great chain, and we are all links in it."
"The Irish are a difficult people, but they have their charm."
"Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition – of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can."
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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