Comet Quotes

58 quotes by 51 authors

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people… — Benjamin Carson
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these… — Henri Poincare
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this… — Mae Jemison
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
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… — Tycho Brahe
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in… — Desiderius Erasmus
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… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her… — Joan Bennett
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet… — Michel de Montaigne
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air. — Torquato Tasso
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was… — Edward Bellamy
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower. — Winston Churchill
With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if… — Kathryn Lasky
You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine. — Max Lucado
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One… — Elaine Scarry
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the… — Jostein Gaarder
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, weâ€™re all too eager to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agencyâ€™s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It… — Stephen Hawking

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