Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature hates calculators.

Nature hates calculators.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Imitation is suicide

Imitation is suicide

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from...

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct,...

Children are all foreigners.

Children are all foreigners.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to...

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring...

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring...

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight; but merit wins the soul.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.