Famous Quotes

"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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes on Science

More quotes about Science

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

• "Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

• "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

• "Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

• "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

• "I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"