Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Science is the topography of ignorance.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ignorance, Science, Topography

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Medical Essays”, p.211, Reprint Services Corporation

• 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?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Writing, Science, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1867). “The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris”, p.192

• The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Eye, Science

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.144, Reprint Services Corporation

• [Science is] piecemeal revelation.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Revelations

• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Men, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”

• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hate, Science, Men

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1943). “The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions”, p.444, Transaction Publishers

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