Astronomy Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every time you wink the stars move.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But if a man be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson