
(1859-1930)
Scottish physician turned
writer. Wrote science fiction
and historical novels. A
seeker of justice and
Spiritualism, he is best
known as the creator
of Sherlock Holmes.
The epitaph on his
gravestone
says:
"Steel true. Blade Straight.
Knight, Patriot, Physician &
Man of Letters."
Reading Sherlock Holmes brought me untold hours of
pleasure.

"Quick Watson, the game is
afoot."
Jeremy Brett as Holmes.
Brett starred in 41 episodes
of Sherlock Holmes that played
on the Mystery Channel in the
mid 1990's. The writers
stayed true to Conan Doyle and
the acting was superb.
Here are a few Conan Doyle quotes, via Holmes:
"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before
one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit
theories, instead of theories to facts."
A Scandal in Bohemia
"My mind", he said, "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 artificial stimulants.
But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave mental
exaltation."
The Sign of the Four
"He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume
which he had opened. It is cocaine," he said, --" a seven-
percent solution. Would you care to try it?"
The Sign of the Four
"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive
memory for trifles."
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with
the greatest saved for the last."
The Adventure of the Red Circle
"Excellent!", I cried.
"Elementary", he said.
The Adventure of the Crooked Man
"I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have
been so good as to give of my own small achievements you
have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be
that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor
of light. Some people without possessing genius have a
remarkable power of stimulating it."
Holmes to Watson, The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Come at once if convenient-if inconvenient come all the
same."
The Adventures of the Creeping Man
"One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to
interpret Nature."
A Study in Scarlet
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated
the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must
be the truth."
The Sign of Four