The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bad times have a scientific value, these are the occasions a good learner would not miss — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/629/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_accounts_the-good-spirit-never-cared-for-the-coll_2495064.jpg)
