Zitat des Tages von Maria Mitchell:
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
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.
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
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.
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.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.
We especially need imagination in science.
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
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.
Question everything.
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.
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
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.
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
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.
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.
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.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.