Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Science Quotes, Poetry Quotes

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

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...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

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Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness.

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All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

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

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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

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Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

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[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

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Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy.

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All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

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