Maria Mitchell Quotes
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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.
Maria Mitchell
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Author Details:
Type:
Scientist Quotes
Category:
American Scientist Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 1, 1818
Date of Death:
June 28, 1889
Nationality:
American
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Select Maria Mitchell Quotations:
We especially need imagination in science.
Maria Mitchell
Question everything.
Maria Mitchell
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Maria Mitchell
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
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Maria Mitchell
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All Maria Mitchell Quotations:
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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing...
As a general rule, people disappoint...
Do not look at stars as...
Every formula which expresses a law...
I am always the better for...
I am just learning to notice...
I am just through with a...
I had, early in life, a...
I have just gone over my...
I have never been in any...
I have worn myself thin trying...
I made observations for three hours...
I saw, in looking over Cooper...
I was a little doubtful about...
I was born, for instance, incapable...
I would as soon put a...
It is sad to see a...
People have to learn sometimes not...
Question everything.
Small aids to individuals, large aid...
Study as if you were going...
That knowledge which is popular is...
The best that can be said...
The greatest object in educating is...
The love of one's own sex...
The Southern character is opposed to...
The world of learning is so...
There is no cosmetic for beauty...
To read a book, to think...
We especially need imagination in science.
We have a hunger of the...
We travel to learn; and I...
Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor...
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