I feel like a white granular mass of amorphous crystals--my formula appears to be isomeric with Spasmotoxin. My aurochloride preci...pitates into beautiful prismatic needles. My Platinochloride develops octohedron crystals,--with a fine blue florescence. My physiological action is not indifferent. One millionth of a grain injected under the skin of a frog produced instantaneous death accompanied by an orange blossom odor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may b...e interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heavy sensual shoulders, the thighs, the blood-born flesh and earth turning into color, rocks into their crystals,... water to sound, fire to form: life flickers uncounted into the supple arms of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Force is my lot and not pink-clustered Roma ni Avignon ni Leyden,... And cold, my element. Death is my Master and, without light, I dwell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, the pickerel of Walden! when I see them lying on the ice, or in the well which the fisherman cuts in the ice, making a little ...hole to admit the water, I am always surprised by their rare beauty, as if they were fabulous fishes, they are so foreign to the streets, even to the woods, foreign as Arabia to our Concord life. They possess a quite dazzling and transcendent beauty ... as if they were the pearls, the animalized nuclei or crystals of the Walden water. They, of course, are Walden all over and all through; are themselves small Waldens in the animal kingdom, Waldenses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;... they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »