"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
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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."
-Maria Mitchell
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"We especially need imagination in science."
-Maria Mitchell
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"It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good."
-Maria Mitchell
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"Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God."
-Maria Mitchell
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"The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!"
-Maria Mitchell
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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