Maria Mitchell Short Quotes

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Do not forget the infinite in the infinitesimal.

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I believe in women even more than I do in astronomy.

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You cannot get a man of genius to explain steps, he leaps.

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I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

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A meteor seems to come like a messenger from departed spirits.

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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

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

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

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But star-gazing is not science. The entrance to astronomy is through mathematics.

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No woman should say, 'I am but a woman!' But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

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

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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

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Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

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I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

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There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.

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The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

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When we are chaffed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

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Newton rolled up the cover of a book; he put a small glass at one end, and a large brain at the other - it was enough.

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A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

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The astronomy which is not mathematical is what is so ludicrously called "Geography of the Heavens" - is not astronomy at all.

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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

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There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

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But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

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I cannot expect to make astronomers, but I do expect that you will invigorate your minds by the effort at healthy modes of thinking.

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The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

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