Friday, April 19, 2013

Mr. Sherlock Holmes on Pundits and Boston


Not the video.  The video is just for fun.

But these are spot on:
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment."
--  "A Study in Scarlet"

"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."

--  "A Scandal in Bohemia"

3 comments:

One Fly said...

Not here. Until we understand as a society that the innocents killed in our name "over there" are just as important as these and all the others recently here it will not get better.

Ormond Otvos said...

There's a non-barking dog here...

Winski said...

The hive mind at work… time to take a drive…