“Comets at the time were considered by theologians and the general public alike as a sign of divine anger, and God must have seemed pretty pissed off to create this one - it occupied more than half of the visible sky.”

Source: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 5, The Dueling Of Large And Small Numbers, p. 89

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American physicist, author and screenwriter 1954

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