Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Science - Page 3

A day is a miniature eternity.

Science, Mystery, Eternity

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Men, Light

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.214, Broadview Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Years, Stronger

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Two, Circumstances

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.410, Harvard University Press

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 the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Light, Personality

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Graphic Arts Books

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 of our self-knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Men, Self

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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 laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Law, Perception

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.183

Science finds it methods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Method, Accounts

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Science, Pages

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

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 left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beach, Latin, Science

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Pieces, May

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1386, Delphi Classics

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Sight, Law

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer, Knowledge, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Science, Mind

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.311, University of Georgia Press

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Children, Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.25, Graphic Arts Books

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Poetry, May

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.480, Library of America

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science, Winning, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.37, Graphic Arts Books