"The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a……" — Maria Mitchell
"The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific."
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Maria Mitchell
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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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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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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
— Samuel Butler
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
— Albert Camus
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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