Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer who, in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet". She won a gold medal prize for her discovery which was presented to her by King Frederick VI of Denmark. On the medal was inscribed "Non Frustra Signorum Obitus Speculamur et Ortus" in Latin. Mitchell was the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth1 August 1818
CountryUnited States of America
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.
For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
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.
I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.