Maria Mitchell

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.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

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.

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 …