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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has…

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 has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.

In today’s wordsScience is first-rate furniture for a man's upper rooms if he has common sense on the ground floor. But if he doesn't have plenty of common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Commonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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