Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Were I as quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine! One groan of mine would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I’ve been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love, I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to… — Edmond Halley Copy Share Image
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and… — Lisa Alther 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
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle 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
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
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman,… — Antonio Tabucchi 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
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.… — Mark Twain 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
“Yes, we all die but there's a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon… — Joan Bennett Copy Share Image
“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
It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 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
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
However dangerous might be the shock of a comet, it might be so slight, that it would only do damage at the… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest… — Edmond Halley 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 generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself - one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/tycho-brahe-26422_age_from-his-observations-he-concluded-that_2711024.jpg)
![“However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence of centuries. It is easy to picture to oneself the effects of this impact upon the Earth. The axis and the motion of rotation changed; the seas abandoning…” quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eef/pierre-simon-laplace-15849_animal_however-the-small-probability-of-a-simil_2790566.jpg)
