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• The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
  -- Thomas Henry Huxley...
• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear", 1914...
• The great tragedy of Science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
  T.H. Huxley ['Collected Essays', 1894 ]...
• There is no sadder sight in the world, than to see a beautiful theory killed by brutal fact.
  -- Thomas Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)...
• You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
  -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builde...
• Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
  "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time....
• He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson..." -- Sherlock Holmes in "The Final Problem
• If I'm typecast as a genius, who cares? -- Jeremy Brett, on playing Sherlock Holme