• The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson: The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.229, Penguin