Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned,—not to see what is not.
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- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, compiled by Phebe Mitchell Kendall (1896), chapter XI; Complete public-domain sentence from chapter XI’s discussion of observation. Read surrounding paragraphs: the following examples warn that expectations can cause observers to mistake clouds for comets
- Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, compiled by Phebe Mitchell Kendall (1896), chapter XI
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