Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a mans upper chambe

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a mans upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Science
category

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. – Dean Inge

Category:
Science

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. – John Desmond Bernal, The Origin of Life, 1967

Category:
Science

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. – Karl Marx

Category:
Science

Physics is imagination in a straight jacket. – John Moffat

Category:
Science

Random Quotes

If you haven’t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. – Phyllis Battelle

Category:
Heart

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
positive

No Child Left Behinds fourth-grade gains arent learning gains, theyre testing gains. Thats why they dont last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. – Jonathan Kozol

Category:
Learning

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Persuasion