Maria Mitchell Quotes

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than...

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the mo...

We especially need imagination in science.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is ...

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. ...

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than...

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort,...

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somew...

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness al...