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Science Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
- Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
- Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his…
- Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
- If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
- The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock…
- Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is…
- In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
- Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of…
- Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
- Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal…
- Science finds it methods.
- Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
- Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
- Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
- 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…
- Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics,…
- "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture…
- Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and…
- Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
- The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. . . . Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful…
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- A day is a miniature eternity.
- All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
- By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to…
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