Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.


Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures, Nature: Addresses, and Lectures, The American Scholar, The Library of America. 1983


The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.

The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.

The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.

The astronomer discovers that geometry, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion.