Maria Mitchell

"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. There will come with the greater love of science greater love to one another.…"

"I know I shall be called heterodox, and that unseen lightning flashes and unheard thunderbolts will be playing around my head, when I say that women will never be profound students in any other depart…"

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

"Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Maria Mitchell on Projekt Gutenberg"

"There is this great danger in student life. Now, we rest all upon what Socrates said, or what Copernicus taught; how can we dispute authority which has come down to us, all established, for ages? We m…"

"There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed."

"Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God."

"The great gain would be freedom of thought. Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtin…"