{"id":1002,"date":"2021-06-07T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:28:00","slug":"two-short-quotes-the-wisdom-of-sherlock-holmes-aka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Two short quotes: The wisdom of Sherlock Holmes, AKA Arthur Conan Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20278802eaf54200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sherlock holmes\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20278802eaf54200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20278802eaf54200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Sherlock holmes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arthur Conan Doyle of course was the author behind Sherlock Holmes. He was also a physician.<\/p>\n<p>Here you go &#8211; both very wise &#8211;<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">&quot;Once <\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px;\">you eliminate the impossible<\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.&quot; <br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">And <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\">&quot;Never theorize before you have data. Invariably you end up twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.&quot;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height: 999999px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Roboto-Regular, HelveticaNeue, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; max-height: 999999px; overflow-wrap: break-word;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bded6bcd6200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sherlock 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bded6bcd6200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bded6bcd6200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px;\" title=\"Sherlock 2\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Conan Doyle of course was the author behind Sherlock Holmes. He was also a physician. Here you go &#8211; both very wise &#8211; &quot;Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.&quot; &#0160; And &#0160; &quot;Never theorize before you have data. Invariably you end up twisting facts to &#8230; <a title=\"Two short quotes: The wisdom of Sherlock Holmes, AKA Arthur Conan Doyle\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1002\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two short quotes: The wisdom of Sherlock Holmes, AKA Arthur Conan Doyle\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7467,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/7467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}