Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that whichis attracted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
