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• Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. -- Maria Mitchell
• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
  We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us....
• Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below!
  Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!...
• Nature is a book of which God is the author.
• Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise -- that which is common to you, me and everybody.
  -- Ernest Hulme, Speculatio...
• I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child.
  -- Jane Taylor (1783-1824) -- A Child's Hymn of Praise...
• If the earth had waited for a precedent, it would never have turned on its axis. -- Maria Mitchell
• We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
  -- Maria Mitchell...