Maria Mitchell Quotes
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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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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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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.
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The greatest benefit derived from the study of science is that it lifts you out of and above the littleness of daily trials. We learn to live in the universe as a part of it; we cannot seperate ourselves from it - our every act connects us with it - our every act affects the whole. Standing under the canopy of stars and remembering their presence you could scarcely do a petty deed, or think a wicked thought.
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I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.
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We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
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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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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.
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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
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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.
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When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
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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.
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As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
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Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.
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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.
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
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There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.
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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"
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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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We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
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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 return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
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For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
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Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.
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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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A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
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