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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(22 May 1859 - 7 Jul 1930)

Scottish author and physician who introduced the legendary character, Sherlock Holmes, in A Study in Scarlet (1887). Although he began a medical practice in 1882, it was his writings that became his career. Late in his life he became interested in spiritualism.

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Arthur Conan Doyle
“Extra hour of daylight”

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Arthur Conan Doyle quote Extra hour of daylight

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“The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In Report, from the Select Committee on the Daylight Saving Bill (1908).

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Arthur Conan Doyle quote: A strange enigma is man! Someone calls him a soul concealed in an animal.

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Arthur Conan Doyle quote: It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit

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Arthur Conan Doyle quote: Data! Data! Data! … I can’t make bricks without clay!

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Science Quotes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
22 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Doyle's birth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave evidence on a proposed Daylight Saving Bill to a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing witnesses.
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Booklist for Arthur Conan Doyle.

Nature bears long with those who wrong her. She is patient under abuse. But when abuse has gone too far, when the time of reckoning finally comes, she is equally slow to be appeased and to turn away her wrath. (1882) -- Nathaniel Egleston, who was writing then about deforestation, but speaks equally well about the danger of climate change today.

Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. (1987) ...(more by Sagan)

Albert Einstein: I used to wonder how it comes about that the electron is negative. Negative-positive—these are perfectly symmetric in physics. There is no reason whatever to prefer one to the other. Then why is the electron negative? I thought about this for a long time and at last all I could think was “It won the fight!” ...(more by Einstein)

Richard Feynman: It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly. ...(more by Feynman)