We especially need imagination in science. – Maria Mitchell
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. – Maria Mitchell
It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. – Maria Mitchell
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. – Maria Mitchell
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont