Maria Mitchell

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"

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

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

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

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.