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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Maria Mitchell
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Maria Mitchell
Age: 70 †
Born: 1818
Born: August 1
Died: 1889
Died: June 28
Astronomer
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University Teacher
Nantucket Island
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.
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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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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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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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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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I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.
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Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.
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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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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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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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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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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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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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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
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How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.
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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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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
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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 have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
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