Maria Mitchell Quote

The laws which regulate the influence of sun and planets are complex; the nature of the influence is not yet understood. The telescope, the spectroscope, and the camera are all at work, and although the unknown must always be infinite, Nature yields one truth after another to the earnest seeker.

In: Helen Wright, Sweeper in the Sky, Chapter 11 (p. 219), Macmillan & Company. 1949