Comet Return

Famous quotes containing the words comet and/or return:

    “By being seldom seen, I could not stir
    But like a comet I was wondered at.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.”
    —Primo Levi (1919–1987)