Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

如果一个人在底层有常识的话，那么对于他的上层社会来说，科学是一件第一流的家具。

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯