“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.”

— Leonard Mlodinow, book The Drunkard's Walk

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

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“This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. …You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)

“My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off.”

Meg Cabot book Darkest Hour

Source: Darkest Hour

“Life has to be a planetary phenomenon. You could no more have a partially occupied planet than you could half a cat or half a dog.”

James E. Lovelock (1919) independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist

"The Man Who Named the World" (1990)

“Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.”

Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet

"All Pervading Consciousness"
Context: Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth,
Did He not permeate them, were but names;
Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.