Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth.

[This message was edited by thenostromo on 10-25-02 at 02:08 PM.]

Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said it. I believe it was from the story "Silver Blaze."

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We must learn to love life without ever trusting it. G.K. Chesterton

Sherlock Holmes in “The Beryl Coronet"
http://www.quoteland.com/topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=146

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Sherlock Holmes in “The Beryl Coronet"
http://www.freebooks.biz/Classics/Doyle/Holmes/Adventures/Adventure11_8.htm

He used it again in The Sign of Four (1890), Chapter 6.

The famous quote from "Silver Blaze" is:
"... the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime."
"The dog did nothing in the nighttime."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

We must learn to love life without ever trusting it. G.K. Chesterton