(6 quotes found)
“An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing”
Mark Twain
“We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt objects.”
Jim Elliot
“Torment ensues the almost conquered man, who shares the regions of his mind, with two warring rivals. Where one enjoys the comforts of soothing light, the other is in disarray; needing total darkness, to remain unseen.”
Enrique Vega
“ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, --_exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.”
Ambrose Bierce
“This is exciting. This could replace the fecal occult blood test.”
Sudhir Srivastava
“These offspring have what we have called 'occult' genetic disease -- their genetic make-up is perfectly normal, but they still have the physical problems of their parents. This phenomenon could complicate the hunt for disease genes.”
Carol Greider
