"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
Topic(s):
Science
More From Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
- "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
- "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!"