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Maria Mitchell has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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;…
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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 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 best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can…
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We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.
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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…
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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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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The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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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,…
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A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from…
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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…
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We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian…
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they…
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody…
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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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…
— Maria Mitchell
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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
— Gerald Durrell
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way…
— George Orwell
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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