Barr/science

Famous quotes containing the words barr and/or science:

“What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.”
—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)

“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)