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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature, Science, Ideas
1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Arthur Conan Doyle
Sweet, Nature, Morning
Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

Arthur Conan Doyle
Nature, Humorous, Sarcasm
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “The Stark Munro Letters”, p.92, The Floating Press

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Arthur Conan Doyle
Time, Nature, Waiting

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