Maria Mitchell Quote

It is the highest joy of the true scientist... that he can reap no lasting harvest — that whatever he may bring into the storehouse today will be surpassed by the gleaners tomorrow — he studies Nature because he loves her and rejoices to "look through Nature up to Nature's God."

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