How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer ...
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Conan Doyle. And he believed in the 'Cottingley Fairies'. So what did he know?
Arthur Conan Doyle.
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer ...
Conan Doyle used it in the Sign of the Four, but I am fairly certain it was an earlier quote from another (19th century?) writer.
That's from the Sherlock Homes books.
Conan Doyle, wrote it for the character Sherlock Holmes. I think Holmes said it in The Hound of the Baskervilles.