“All the other stars keep to their courses, and go along just like trains on their rails, but comets can go absolutely… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded… — Henry Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment. — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws… — Damian Kulash Copy Share Image
“Our hands have held the life of every atom, and our eyes read the stories, of each soul. Our mouths have spoken… — Hendrith Smith Copy Share Image
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes.… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I'm like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley's Comet, Blazin' blunts in my driveway... — Redman Copy Share Image
I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The Muskrat was still lying in his hammock and thinking. "Good afternoon, Uncle Muskrat!" said Moomintroll. "Do you know that things have… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . . — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image