4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Science

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on science

27. I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

29. What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?

32. The Religion that is afraid of science dishonours God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion and making way for truth.

258. Science does not know its debt to imagination.