"I have worn myself thin trying to find……" — Maria Mitchell
"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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48 Quotes by Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell has 48 quotes on this site.
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Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone…
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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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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of…
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A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself…
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More Comet Quotes
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm…
— Benjamin Carson
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
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Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right…
— Mae Jemison
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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When…
— Mark Twain
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether…
— Tycho Brahe
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[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from…
— Joan Bennett
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of…
— Michel de Montaigne
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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
— Torquato Tasso
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress…
— Edward Bellamy
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The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.
— Winston Churchill
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