Solar Eclipse Quotes

• The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Venus, Way, Eclipse

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Venus transit: It’s not about the ‘spectacle’" by Emi Kolawole, www.washingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

  Martin Buber

  Character, Light, Heaven

  Martin Buber (2015). “Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

  Simon Newcomb

  America, Eclipse Of The Sun, British

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want . . . but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy . . . try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science.

  Carl Sagan

  Sex, Children, Real

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• When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

  Young-Ha Kim

  Moon, Bird, Sun

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• Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Gone

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.632, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

  Sherman Alexie

  Years, Sky, Parent

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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