"Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their……" — Charles Caleb Colton

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• I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm… — Benjamin Carson
• We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born… — Robert R. McCammon
• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no… — Henri Poincare
• But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of… — James Clerk Maxwell
• Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right… — Mae Jemison
• The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When… — Mark Twain
• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether… — Tycho Brahe
• Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena.… — 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… — Desiderius Erasmus
• However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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