Maria Mitchell

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“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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“The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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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."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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"No woman should say, 'I am but a woman!' But a woman! What more can you ask to be?"

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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"I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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"We especially need imagination in science. Question everything."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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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."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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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."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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"That knowledge which is popular is not scientific."

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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“Question everything.”

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)

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“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

― Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)