Sublime

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Holmes, however, has an idea. “Of course, this blood belongs to a second individual—presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed,” he tells the two policemen. “It reminds me of the circumstances attendant on the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year ’34. Do you remember the case, Gregson?” Gregson confesses that he does not. “Read i

Morantz-Sanchez quotes Professor Henry Hartshorne, delivering the 1872 commencement address at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania: It is not always the most logical, but often the most discerning physician who succeeds best at the bedside. Medicine is, indeed, a science, but its practice is an art. Those who bring the quick eye, the recept

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” —Sherlock Holmes