'Mr. Sherlock Holmes, your time is precious and my funds are limited. Instead of finding out what the butler was doing, and the maid, and the footman, and all the other people, why don't you simply concentrate on the murderer and find out who he is. That's all I want to know. For that I am willing to pay but not for anything having to do with the other people.'
Will Sherlock Holmes take on a commission like this?
Yet people often say, why don't scientists concentrate on discoveries that are practically useful and forget all the rest?
In solving the Dancing Men Cipher Sherlock Holmes was furnished with five messages from that cipher. Can we ask him, 'Don't bother with the other four; just tell me what the last one says.'?
(This is a follow-up on something I said in the last post.)
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