Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

• There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

• We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Science, Expression, Advice

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. at 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Nature, Science, Yield

• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ignorance, Science, Space

• As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Growing Up, Teaching

• [The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Science, Constitution

• Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Ocean, Knowledge

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.

• Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Knowledge, Mean, School

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