Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quote

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


The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)


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

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

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

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