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拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生:随笔·摘录 99

拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生《随笔》· Essays · 健康 · 哲学 · 认知 · 领导

10. This guiding identity runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece, and characterizes every law. Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore is he the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. A man does not tie his shoe without recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature: moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers. Common sense knows its own, and recognizes the fact at first sight in chemical experiment. The common sense of Franklin,[510] Dalton,[511] Davy[512] and Black,[513] is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.

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定位:Excerpt 99 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

核心是:人脑中装着整个世界,因此能预感和发现自然的秘密。爱默生说,这种统一的同一性贯穿全篇的惊奇与对比,并刻画每一条法则。人把世界装在头脑里,整个天文学和化学都悬在一个念头中;因为自然的历史刻在人脑中,所以人成为她秘密的先知和发现者。自然科学中每个已知事实,在被实际验证之前,都先被某人的预感所猜中。人系鞋带时也在承认约束自然最远区域的法则:月亮、植物、气体、晶体都是具体的几何与数字。常识认得出自己的东西,在化学实验中一眼就认出事实;富兰克林、道尔顿、戴维和布莱克的常识,与当初做出那些安排的是同一种常识。

上下文

出自爱默生《随笔集》,他常强调直觉与常识在科学发现中的作用,并列举当时科学家为例。

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今日一问

你最近有没有一个预感或直觉,值得你去验证它是否指向某个真实规律?

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