Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer and Physician
| Date of Birth | : | 22 May, 1859 |
| Date of Death | : | 07 Jul, 1930 |
| Place of Birth | : | Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| Profession | : | Writer, Physician |
| Nationality | : | British |
Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction.
Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother’s lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, “An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.”
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
Dogs don't make mistakes.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
You see, but you do not observe.
