In the book this quote is in, Holmes uses it to justify refusing to remember that the Earth goes around the Sun.
However, he does demonstrate this knowledge later in the series and in fact turns out the be a well of useless facts later on though I don’t have the source for the inconsistency handy at the moment.
In the book this quote is in, Holmes uses it to justify refusing to remember that the Earth goes around the Sun.
However, he does demonstrate this knowledge later in the series and in fact turns out the be a well of useless facts later on though I don’t have the source for the inconsistency handy at the moment.