Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Sometimes ascribed to Virginia Woolf, but it appeared as early as 1854 in Anna Jameson's A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, where it is ascribed to William Wordsworth.
Misattributed
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Attributed by Anna Jameson in her A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies (1854).
Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
David Brewster (1781–1868) British astronomer and mathematician
More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian (1856), p. 207
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?
P. 276.
Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
“I myself can think of a dozen ways to annihilate all living persons within one hour.”
Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) Swiss astronomer
Fritz Zwicky, cited in " Idea Man http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/beamline/31/1/31-1-maurer.pdf", by Stephen M. Maurer; published in Beam Line (Winter 2001, Vol. 31, No. 1)
“Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
Meditations on Death, Stanza 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 504.