

“From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet

“Well, okay. I know the answer to that. Part of it might be what I represent: progress, science, and the interplanetary future we’ve dreamed of for centuries. But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it’s true.”
― The Martian
― The Martian

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "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.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet

“Gay probe coming to save me. Got it.”
― The Martian
― The Martian

“It's quite exciting," said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
― A Study in Scarlet
― A Study in Scarlet
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