“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes Related Quotes “When all else is lost, the future still remains.”– Christian Nestell Bovee “Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?”– Tracey Ullman “Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.”– Lewis Thomas