detective
“Cherchez la femme!”
“Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay.”
“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
“What one man can invent another can discover.”
“You know my methods, Watson.”
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.”
“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
“The game is afoot.”
“You see, but you do not observe.”
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”