Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.
Maria Mitchell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Maria Mitchell
Age: 70 †
Born: 1818
Born: August 1
Died: 1889
Died: June 28
Astronomer
Librarian
University Teacher
Nantucket Island
La polla
Line
Differs
Lines
Outline
American
Outlines
Makes
Mistaken
Never
Village
Thatched
English
Wavy
Sky
Cottage
Blue
Cottages
More quotes by Maria Mitchell
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.
Maria Mitchell
The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.
Maria Mitchell
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
Maria Mitchell
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
Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.
Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.
Maria Mitchell
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
Maria Mitchell
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
Maria Mitchell
I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.
Maria Mitchell
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
Maria Mitchell
I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.
Maria Mitchell
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
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Maria Mitchell
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Maria Mitchell
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell
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.
Maria Mitchell
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.
Maria Mitchell
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
Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.
Maria Mitchell
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
Maria Mitchell
