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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
— 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
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
— Maria Mitchell
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
— 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
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
— Maria Mitchell
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
— Maria Mitchell
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.
— 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
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
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
— Maria Mitchell
I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.
— Maria Mitchell
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
— Maria Mitchell
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
— Maria Mitchell
How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.
— Maria Mitchell
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
— Maria Mitchell
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
But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?
— Maria Mitchell
Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.
— Maria Mitchell
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
— Maria Mitchell
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
— Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.
— 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 am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
— Maria Mitchell
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
— Maria Mitchell
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
— Maria Mitchell
Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.
— Maria Mitchell
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.
— Maria Mitchell
The phrase 'popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
— Maria Mitchell
As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.
— Jeannine Atkins