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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Law
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.7

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive, Nature, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.137, Courier Corporation

Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Bipolar
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.331, Modern Library

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 itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
War, Mean, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.622, Modern Library

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Learning, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silly, Science, Political
Essays "Self-Reliance" (1841)

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Mean, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.9, Library of America

A man should carry nature in his head.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Learning, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.63, University of Georgia Press

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Imagination, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.5, Harvard University Press

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Law

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Law, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1102, Delphi Classics

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Science, Lines
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.254, Harvard University Press

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 of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Volcanoes, Sight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Selfish, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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 of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, What Matters, Glasses
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Miracle, Mythology
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2621, Delphi Classics

Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Science, Brave

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Gun, Fuel
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Father, Ocean, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.142

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge, Science, Knows
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1080, Delphi Classics

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 or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Angel, Science, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2539, Delphi Classics

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Clouds, Air
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Teaching, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.421, Penguin

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Math, Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heart, Science, Microscopes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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