Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Ignorance Was As Remarkable As His Knowledge. Of Contemporary Literature, Philosophy And Politics He Appeared To Know Next To Nothing. Upon My Quoting Thomas Carlyle, He Inquired In The Naivest Way Who He Might Be And What He Had Done. My Surprise Reached A Climax, However, When I Found Incidentally That He Was Ignorant Of The Copernican Theory And Of The Composition Of The Solar System. That Any Civilized Human Being In This Nineteenth Century Should Not Be Aware That The Earth Travelled Round The Sun Appeared To Me To Be Such An Extraordinary Fact That I Could Hardly Realize It. "You Appear To Be Astonished," He Said, Smiling At My Expression Of Surprise. "Now That I Do Know It I Shall Do My Best To Forget It.

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