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— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post."
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Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
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