Science Quote by Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedenborg’s authority move is almost aggressively sensory: not argued, not inferred, but witnessed. “Not deterred” reads like a rebuttal to an invisible tribunal of skeptics, the kind a working scientist would anticipate. He isn’t just insisting he’s right; he’s insisting he can’t be talked out of what his body has already certified. The phrase stacks three verbs that climb from public to private: seen (the most “objective”), heard (testimony), felt (the least transferable, the most intimate). That escalation is the point. He’s building a ladder from empiricism to revelation while borrowing the cadence of empirical reporting.

The context is Swedenborg’s strange pivot: a respected engineer and natural philosopher who, in midlife, became a prolific visionary writing about angels, heaven, and the architecture of the afterlife. Enlightenment culture prized reason, mechanism, and repeatable proof; Swedenborg answers that climate by framing mystical experience in the grammar of observation. He doesn’t say “I believe.” He says he’s been there.

Subtext: the modern mind’s favorite compromise. If faith wants permission to speak in an age of measurement, it tries on the lab coat. Swedenborg’s sentence performs that costume change in real time. It’s also a canny preemptive strike against the standard accusation that mystics are seduced by fantasy. By insisting on sense data, he implies that doubters aren’t more rational, just less exposed.

The line works because it’s both defiant and oddly procedural: a witness statement delivered with the calm of someone logging results, even as the “results” threaten the entire rulebook.