Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes About Science
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Science is the topography of ignorance.
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[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Born: August 29, 1809
- Died: October 7, 1894
- Occupation: Physician
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