68 Quotes by 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.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

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?

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

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.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How much women need exact science" But since I have known some workers in science, I have now said, "How much science needs women"