Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.


Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Chapter III (pp. 106-107), Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1879


Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.

Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.

Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.

Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.