TOP 20 Maria Mitchell Quotes

TOP 20 Maria Mitchell Quotes.

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:00)

“But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?”
— Maria Mitchell (00:07)

“We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:14)

“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:21)

“In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, “How much women need exact science” But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, “How much science needs women””
— Maria Mitchell (00:28)

“The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:35)

“I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:42)

“I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:49)

“A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women’s sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.”
— Maria Mitchell (00:56)

“Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:03)

“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:10)

“How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:17)

“Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned – not to see what is not.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:24)

“Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:31)

“The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:38)

“No woman should say, “I am but a woman!” But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”
— Maria Mitchell (01:45)

“I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:52)

“An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.”
— Maria Mitchell (01:59)

“The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.”
— Maria Mitchell (02:06)

“I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.”
— Maria Mitchell (02:13)

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