Edmond Halley Quotes

#1. What had driven the litigation-loving Bengali to turn his gentle green valley into a pocket edition of hell?'

John Younie, the judge who tried the Chittagong Armoury Raid Case.

Manoshi Bhattacharya

#2. Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Mason Cooley

#3. Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this ... will without much labour be effected.

Edmond Halley

#4. In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun ... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

Edmond Halley

#5. It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

John Von Neumann

#6. This sight ... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

Edmond Halley

#7. The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

#8. When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

Marketa Irglova

#9. O woman's counsel is so often cold! A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he had been so merry, so well at ease.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. For prayer is the language of the heart ...

Grace Aguilar

#11. Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Edmond Halley

#12. There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

Albert Einstein