Finding Wonders Quotes

“There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

“Names and knowledge change, the way the turning
world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound
even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

“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.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

“As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science