27 Quotes About Comet
- Author Ben H. Winters
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What is about to happen is not the reclaiming of Earth by a triumphant Mother Nature, a karmic repudiation of humanity's arrogant ill stewardship. Nothing we ever did mattered one way or another. This event has always been in the cards for man's planet, for the whole scope of our history, coming regardless of what we did or didn't do.
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- Author Rajesh`
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I wonder on how that spectacle in the night sky must have forever sparked the curiosity of that young boy.
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- Author Marsha Mehran
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She watched Malachy curl his long fingers around a lock of Layla's straight hair, gently caressing it as he mused on the origins of stars. The young astronomer knew that in Aristotelian times the word 'comet' meant "the length of luminous hair," but the word eventually changed to signify the orbiting streak that sometimes, just sometimes, flies a little too close to the sun.
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- Author Don Brownlee
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The real exciting thing will be opening the canister and seeing what the comet delivered to us.
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- Author Don Brownlee
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We were stunned when we got to the comet and saw incredible features - steep cliffs, overhanging cliffs, spires and many features which, oddly enough, we had never been seen on other Solar System bodies.
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- Author Donald Brownlee
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This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust.
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- Author Donald Brownlee
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We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.
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- Author Donald Brownlee
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We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.
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- Author Donald Brownlee
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It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
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