Maria Mitchellová citáty

Maria Mitchellová byla americká astronomka.

Pocházela z kvakerské rodiny, zájem o astronomii převzala od svého otce Williama Mitchella. Od roku 1836 pracovala jako knihovnice v Nantucket Atheneum. Dne 1. října 1847 objevila kometu C/1847 T1, nazývanou také „kometa slečny Mitchellové“. Za svůj objev obdržela zlatou medaili dánského krále Frederika VI. a byla jako první žena v historii přijata do American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Roku 1865 obdržela profesuru na Vassar College a v roce 1869 se stala členkou American Philosophical Society. Významně se angažovala za dostupnější vzdělání pro ženy, přátelila se s předními intelektuály své doby jako byli Herman Melville nebo Ralph Waldo Emerson, byla aktivní feministkou a abolicionistkou. Posmrtně byla uvedena do National Women's Hall of Fame.

Byla podle ní pojmenována Maria Mitchell Observatory na ostrově Nantucket, obchodní loď SS Maria Mitchell a kráter Mitchell na Měsíci. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. srpen 1818 – 28. červen 1889
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“I know I shall be called heterodox, and that unseen lightning flashes and unheard thunderbolts will be playing around my head, when I say that women will never be profound students in any other department except music while they give four hours a day to the practice of music. I should by all means encourage every woman who is born with musical gifts to study music; but study it as a science and an art, and not as an accomplishment; and to every woman who is not musical, I should say, 'Don't study it at all;' you cannot afford four hours a day, out of some years of your life, just to be agreeable in company upon possible occasions. If for four hours a day you studied, year after year, the science of language, for instance, do you suppose you would not be a linguist? Do you put the mere pleasing of some social party, and the reception of a few compliments, against the mental development of four hours a day of study of something for which you were born? When I see that girls who are required by their parents to go through with the irksome practising really become respectable performers, I wonder what four hours a day at something which they loved, and for which God designed them, would do for them. I should think that to a real scientist in music there would be something mortifying in this rush of all women into music; as there would be to me if I saw every girl learning the constellations, and then thinking she was an astronomer!”

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (illustrated) by Maria Mitchell, 1896, p. 189.

“An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.”

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals (illustrated) by Maria Mitchell, 1896 http://pinetreeweb.com/bp-admiral.htm.

“There is a God, and he is good, I say to myself. I try to increase my trust in this, my only article of creed.”

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10202/pg10202.html (1896).

“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”

The Book of Positive Quotations By John Cook, Leslie Ann Gibson (2nd ed. 2007), p. 283.
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“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters and Journals http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10202/pg10202.html (1896).

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