Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Nature Quotes, Science Quotes

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 brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

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There were taken apples, and ... closed up in wax. ... After a month's space, the apple inclosed in was was as green and fresh as the first putting in, and the kernals continued white. The cause is, for that all exclusion of open air, which is ever predatory, maintaineth the body in its first freshness and moisture.

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[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

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In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

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And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

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

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[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

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