Maria Mitchell Quotes

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• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Inspirational, Change, Educational

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• Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Space, Trying

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• I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

  Maria Mitchell

  Perseverance, Ordinary, Capacity

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

  Maria Mitchell

  Wisdom, Should, Asks

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

  Maria Mitchell

  Imagination, Needs, Questioning

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

  Maria Mitchell

  Nature, Science, Law

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

  Maria Mitchell

  Happiness, Happy, Beauty

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• The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Thinking, Wicked

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• How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

  Maria Mitchell

  Believe, Book, People

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• Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

  Maria Mitchell

  Art

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"

  Maria Mitchell

  Science, Needs, Half

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, Nerves, World

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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

  Maria Mitchell

  Giving, Study, Habit

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

  Maria Mitchell

  Circles, Numbers, Spheres

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

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Caring, Perspective

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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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?

  Maria Mitchell

  Eye, Rainbow, Shadow

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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

  Maria Mitchell

  Observation, Activity, Immense

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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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.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Flower, Autumn

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• For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

  Maria Mitchell

  Women, Overcoming, Path

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

  Maria Mitchell

  Acceptance, Men, Thinking

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

  Maria Mitchell

  People, Disappoint, People Disappoint

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

  Maria Mitchell

  Yesterday, Catholic, Church

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• To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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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.

  Maria Mitchell

  Trying, Littles, Matter

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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