Accounts Quote by Edmond Halley

Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke,…

— William Congreve

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for…

— Charles Spurgeon

“the tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze.…

— Kelly Easton

“Astronomy is, not without reason, regarded, by mankind, as the sublimest of the natural sciences. Its objects so frequently visible, and therefore familiar, being…

— Benjamin Silliman

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see there!' and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber of creative…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Comets importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

— William Shakespeare

“She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see.”

— Susanna Clarke

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…

— Tycho Brahe