(54 quotes found)
“I had watched a dozen comets ... slowly creep across the sky as each one signed its sweeping flourish in the guest book of the Sun.”
David Levy
“This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.”
Don Brownlee
“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, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke”
William Congreve
“The spacecraft has to be smart enough on its own to observe the comet, determine whether it's headed in the right direction, if not, make its own course correction, and then fire its thrusters to achieve that course correction.”
Don Yeomans
“We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.”
Donald Brownlee
“You don't have to change the course of the comet very much to miss the keyhole if you do it a number of years in advance.”
Clark Chapman
“This one is probably the most special to me, for the simple fact that no one really expected the Comets to do what we did this year,”
Sheryl Swoopes
“We saw many, many, many comet particles that were big enough to see with the naked eye.”
“It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.”
“Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain minerals or glass.”
