Top 35 Quotes by Maria Mitchell

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

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

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Question everything.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

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.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.