5 quotes found
“As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.”
“There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.”
“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.”
“No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.”
“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”
