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The quotations of
British writer and physician
1859–1930
34 quotes, most often on Thinking, Knowledge and Facts.
You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
Winwood Reade is good upon the subject,” said Holmes. “He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant.