Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Vices Quotes

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

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It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active.

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Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

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We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

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The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

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The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

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But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

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Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

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As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.

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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

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In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

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