Comets Quote by Isaac Newton

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death…

— Carl Sagan

Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars,…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a…

— Galileo Galilei

“He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling…

— Douglas Adams

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to…

— Primo Levi

“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment’s idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that…

— Arthur Machen

“The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion.…

— Ambrose Bierce

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew…

— Jack London

“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his…

— Mark Twain