"Science is the topography of ignorance." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Science is the topography of ignorance."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
— Isaac Asimov
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
— Isaac Asimov
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
— Francis of Assisi
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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