Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Emerson , Ralph Waldo (1875), The prose works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Retrieved on 2012-04-28
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    28 APR 2012

     Experience is Experiment

    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.
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    Emerson describes the importance of feeling electric shocks, fake volcanoes, tasting NO, etc.

    28 APR 2012

     Greed Mutates Science into Pseudoscience

    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.
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    It transmogrifies astronomy into astrology.

    28 APR 2012

     Science Revolutionizes

    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.
    Folksonomies: science revolution
    Folksonomies: science revolution
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    But deeper minds are not surprised.

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