Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
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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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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 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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Science is the topography of ignorance.
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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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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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Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.
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Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.