There will come with the greater love of science greater love to one another.
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You cannot study anything persistently for years without becoming learned, and although I would not hold reputation up to you as a very high object of ambition, it is a wayside flower which you are sure to have catch at your skirts.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
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, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals