除去所有不可能的因素,留下来的东西,无论你多么不愿意去相信,但它就是事实的真相。
这句的原文是:
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
其出自:
《四签名》(1980)
"You will not apply my precept," he said, shaking his head. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
We know that he did not come through the door, the window, or the chimney.
We also know that he could not have been concealed in the room, as there
is no concealment possible.
When, then, did he come?"
——The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
—— Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)