 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1892 - 672 pages
...opponent. So far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, so there only remained your niece and the... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Detective and mystery stories, English - 1892 - 352 pages
...opponent. So far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet ? " It is an old maxim of mine that when you...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, so there only remained your niece and the... | |
 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1902 - 466 pages
...opponent. So far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet ? " It is an old maxim of mine that when you...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, so there only remained your niece and the... | |
 | Harold Jeffreys - Earth (Planet) - 1924 - 300 pages
...is not to deny its importance in the history of cosmogony and geophysics. APPENDIX B Jeans's Theory "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." A. CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Bl . The chief point of difference between the theory... | |
 | American essays - 1925 - 878 pages
...Cambridge, in his recent book, The Earth, answers this query with a quotation: 'It is an old maxim that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' Professor Eddington of Cambridge Observatory summarized the conclusions of Dr. Jeans in the following... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics - 1968 - 264 pages
...face of it, this reasoning sounds much like that of Sherlock Holmes, who said on several occasions : "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth !" I am willing to go along with this formula, but only after we have followed Holmes and excluded... | |
 | Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith - Science - 1990 - 148 pages
...vital. '...it seemed to me... that some new possibility had dawned suddenly upon him.' 10 Crystals ' It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.' If organic molecules as a class fail to fit the specifications for ' low-tech ' genes, what classes... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. — William Osier It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded...whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. — Mark Twain It is... | |
 | M. J. French - Philosophy - 1994 - 396 pages
...l:alnirs buoy rog (c) PSFrog Fig. 7.24. Principles of some WECs (diagrammatic). maxim of mine, Watson, that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'. Change 'truth' to 'only hope' and the advice is applicable to design. Accordingly, we looked at what... | |
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. 
