"One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it."
from "The Naval Treaty" :
"There is nothing in which deduction is necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be buit up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much hope from the flowers."
Sherlock Holmes
