Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was a 19th-century American poet, essayist, physician. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Read more on Wikipedia →

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