"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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"It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good."
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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!"
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"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."
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"Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff."
-Joel Edgerton
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
-Diane Cilento
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
-Brian Aldiss
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"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."
-Nick Lampson
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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