Maria Mitchell Quote

The chemist should have had a laboratory, and the observatory should have had an astronomer; but we are too apt to bestow money where there is no man, and to find a man where there is no money.


In: Phebe Mitchell Kendall, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals


The chemist should have had a laboratory, and the observatory should have had an astronomer; but we are too apt to bestow money where there is no...

The chemist should have had a laboratory, and the observatory should have had an astronomer; but we are too apt to bestow money where there is no...

The chemist should have had a laboratory, and the observatory should have had an astronomer; but we are too apt to bestow money where there is no...

The chemist should have had a laboratory, and the observatory should have had an astronomer; but we are too apt to bestow money where there is no...