Question everything.
More Quotes from Maria Mitchell:
Even astronomers who are as well cared for as are those of Cambridge have their annoyances, and even men as skilled as they are make blunders.Maria Mitchell
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.
Maria Mitchell
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Maria Mitchell
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell
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.
Maria Mitchell
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.
Maria Mitchell
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