The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.

Our divisions into sciences are not a part of nature...in nature there is really neither chemistry nor physics, nor zoology, nor physiology, nor pathology; there are only bodies to be classified or phenomena to be known and mastered.

Facts don’t lie but we may have interpreted or stated them wrong and therefore drawn the wrong conclusion

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. (Holmes; The Hound of the Baskervilles)

Don’t miss the forest for the trees - It is not the amount of information that counts but the relevant one.

It we could see the world the way others see it, we easier understand why they do what they do

I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentration during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were essential and which immaterial. (Dr. Watson; The Hound of the Baskervil

The fatal mistake which the ordinary policeman make is this, that he gets his theory first, and then makes the facts fit it, instead of getting his facts first and making all his little observations and deductions until he is driven irresistibly by them into an elucidation in a direction he may never have originally contemplated.

Patterns repeat but not always - Is it the same situation or circumstances or is it unique and fundamentally different from the past - what factors, conditions, behavior differ? Was it a random factor? We ought not to be ignorant that the same remedies are not good for all. (Celsus) But remember that we see what we are looking for - if we look for