Sherlock Holmes told Watson he didn’t care to know if the Earth went around the Sun or the Sun went around the Earth. He believed human memory had limited capacity. Knowing the Earth Sun relationship wasn’t relevant to his work. If he remembered it, it could displace something that was needed in his work.
Sherlock Holmes told Watson he didn’t care to know if the Earth went around the Sun or the Sun went around the Earth. He believed human memory had limited capacity. Knowing the Earth Sun relationship wasn’t relevant to his work. If he remembered it, it could displace something that was needed in his work.