Quotaria

Picard: "Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk."
- Star Trek the Next Generation, "Darmok"

"I am an omnivorous reader with a
strangely retentive memory for trifles."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

"You are Holmes, the meddler.”
My friend smiled.
”Holmes, the busybody!”
His smile broadened.
”Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!”
Holmes chuckled heartily.
-- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band --

[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]
Data: I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the
intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands.
[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]
Data: Mmm?
[Spot meows again.]
Data: Ah.
[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]
Geordi La Forge: I don't know about Spot, but your training is coming along
just fine. Let's go.
- Star Trek the Next Generation, "Force of Nature"

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile"
— Ovid.

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer
begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet