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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

~Maria Mitchell

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

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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.

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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

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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.

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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

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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.

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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: August 1st, 1818

Died: June 28th, 1889

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