Arthur Conan Doyle — "The most difficult problems are found in the simplest things."
The most difficult problems are found in the simplest things.
The most difficult problems are found in the simplest things.
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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery."
"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can then dispense with artifi…"
"The mysteries of the universe are endless."
"The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money."
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
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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