Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Today's quote is from Ralph Waldo Emerson; the picture was taken at the Linnean Society last summer.
But these young scholars who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,
And all their…
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson