Maria Mitchell

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“There is this great danger in student life. Now, we rest all upon what Socrates said, or what Copernicus taught; how can we dispute authority which has come down to us, all established, for ages? We must at least question it; we cannot accept anything as granted, beyond the first mathematical formulae. Question everything else.”
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (illustrated) by Maria Mitchell, 1896, p. 188.
“An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.”
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (illustrated) by Maria Mitchell, 1896 .
“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (1896).
“There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.”
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (1896).
“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
— The Book of Positive Quotations By John Cook, Leslie Ann Gibson (2nd ed. 2007), p. 283.

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