"The eye that directs a needle in the……" — Maria Mitchell
"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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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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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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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the…
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell…
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Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow
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Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
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You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place…
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