Maria Mitchell Quote

The true scientist must be self-forgetting. He knows that under the best circumstances he is sowing what others must reap — or rather he is striking the mine which others must open up — for human life at longest has not the measure of a single breath in the long life of science.

In: Helen Wright, Sweeper in the Sky, Chapter 9 (p. 168), Macmillan & Company. 1949

The true scientist must be self-forgetting. He knows that under the best circumstances he is sowing what others must reap — or rather he is...

The true scientist must be self-forgetting. He knows that under the best circumstances he is sowing what others must reap — or rather he is...

The true scientist must be self-forgetting. He knows that under the best circumstances he is sowing what others must reap — or rather he is...

The true scientist must be self-forgetting. He knows that under the best circumstances he is sowing what others must reap — or rather he is...