One of many fun, interesting, unique artifacts I have collected along the way.
Quotations on the mug:
-When you have eliminated the impossible,whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-Be aware: All great criminals have a complex mind.
-Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
-One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.
-Never make exceptions. An exception proves the rule.
-There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
-Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
-There is nothing so important as trifles.
-It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence.
-Don’t just see: observe.
-The little things are infinitely the most important.
-Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
-It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital.
-When a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deduction, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
-Never guess. It is a shocking habit–destructive to the logical faculty.
-It is easier to know than to explain why I know.
-Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
-There is no branch of deductive science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.
-There can be no question of the value of exercise before breakfast.