Comet Quotes

"I was having a rare weekend back in Sheffield at my local pub and somebody asked me what we were going to call the new album. I said I wasn`t sure yet. Somebody turned around and said, "Why don`t you call it Halley`s Comet? It comes around about as often.` In fact, Halley`s Comet has already been out and we are still recording." December 1986

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

We are assembling a list of comet ingredients that will be used by other scientists for years to come,

(on her sister Constance): "That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she`d been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening."