Science is good furniture for one’s upper …
Science is good furniture for one’s upper chamber, if there is common sense below.
~…
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way …
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes…
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new …
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
~ Oliver…
Man is born a predestined idealist, for …
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is…
It is the province of knowledge to …
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom…
I find the great thing in this …
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,…
Civilization is the process of reducing the …
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes…
A person is always startled when he …
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for…