Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.