The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1883)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but...

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but...

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but...

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but...