Ralph Waldo Emerson on Knowledge
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“Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.”
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear,— Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.”
“How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another the laws of physics! What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the counsels of the creation, and feels by knowledge the privilege to Be! His insight refines him. The beauty of nature shines in his own breast. Man is greater that he can see this, and the universe less, because Time and Space relations vanish as laws are known. Here again we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know, is a point to what we do not know."”