Comets Quotes

83 quotes by 72 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
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds… — Robert R. McCammon
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
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe' or to anything?… — James Clerk Maxwell
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
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
[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
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy… — Edmond Halley
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

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