"No facts are to me sacred; none..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.”
“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”
“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.”
More on Experimentation
“When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.”
“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.”
“Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”
More on Learning
“We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.”
“I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.”
“How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?”