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 de la luz del cielo, eclipse de Dios: tal es el carácter de la hora histórica que atraviesa el mundo.

  Martin Buber

  Carácter, Luz, Cielo

  Martin Buber (2015). "Eclipse de Dios: Estudios sobre la relación entre religión y filosofía", 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). "Las reminiscencias de un astrónomo", 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 creía que el amor era como un eclipse solar: impresionantemente bello, absorbente y capaz de dejarte ciego. No se había esforzado por evitar una relación, pero tampoco la había deseado. Por algo se llamaba enamorarse, porque, inevitablemente, uno se estrellaba contra el fondo.

  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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