"The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer."

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Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

Maria Mitchell

#Stars Quotes #Eye Quotes #Embroidery Quotes

“What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!”
“I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
“After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.”
“Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.”
“I don't need easy, I just need possible.”
“Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.”
“Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.”

Source : Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival, November 5, 2006.
“Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”

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