The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
1Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
