"The best that can be said of my……" — Maria Mitchell
"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."
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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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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the…
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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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