As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.

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.

There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.

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.

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin. When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm.

I didn't play in the NFL, and I didn't play defensive line. But football, at the fundamental level, is football. It's about motivating people and getting the best out of them.

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.