Comets Quote by Maria Mitchell

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

— Maria Mitchell

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and…

— KT Tunstall

“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

So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.

— Donald E. Brownlee

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

— William Shakespeare

“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

— David H. Levy

“It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer…

— Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre

“helium became the first and only element in the chemist’s Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A year after that, the great red star, its waist now nearly to Jupiter, all at once collapsed in on itself and exploded into…

— Kevin Emerson

“And there in the middle, high above Prechistensky Boulevard, amidst a scattering of stars on every side but catching the eye through its closeness…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary…

— Bill Vaughan

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