Oliver Wendell Holmes Science Quotations

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

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?

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.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

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.