Maria Mitchell

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

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I just had an idea that went right over my head.