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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Michele Besso (8 October 1952)
- Facts
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
Albert Einstein1879–1955First sentence of “Maxwells Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Auffassung des Physikalisch-Realen”
A theory is the more impressive, the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more diverse things it connects, and the wider its scope.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“Autobiographical Notes” (1949)
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
- War & Peace
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book First: Boy and Girl, Chapter VIn context
- Nature
- Youth
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Nature
- Time
On behalf of the British people I salute the skill and courage which have brought man to the moon. May this endeavour increase the knowledge and well-being of mankind.
Elizabeth II1926–2022Message left on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11; NASA documentation (13 July 1969)
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
- Nature
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Poetry and Imagination
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870)
And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), May-Day
- Change
- Nature
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Language
- Nature
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- Nature
- Poetry
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Nature
- God
- Nature