About Quote by Seth Shostak

“The key point of the Tunguska Event is that there was a tremendous explosion, a great shock wave, an enormous forest fire, and yet…

— Carl Sagan

“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you…

— Ernest Rutherford

The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts…

— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

In my Ph.D. thesis, written in 1989, I discussed the fact that when a civilization develops the technology to prevent catastrophic asteroid impacts, it…

— David Grinspoon

“Never in my life had I wished so hard for a thousand-foot-wide asteroid to change its course to hit someone directly in the face.…

— Camilla Monk

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

— Robert T. Bakker

“[ Asteroids are ] the vermin of the skies. [ Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs .]”

— Walter Baade

“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the…

— Annie Jacobsen

When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility…

— Rusty Schweickart

“Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today.”

— Ian Frazier

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

— James Dashner