Citations by Celebreties
"Je crois quelquefois que le signe le plus flagrant qu'une
vie intelligente existe quelque part dans l'univers est que personne
n'a essayé de nous contacter."
--Dessinateur américain [ Bill Waterson ]
Extrait de la bande dessinée Calvin et Hobbes
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable
end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded
yellow sun.
Orbitting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles
is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape descended
life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital
watches are a pretty neat idea..."
--Douglas Adams (1952-2001).
" Innumerable suns exist. Innumerable Earths revolve around
these - Living beings inhabit these worlds."
--Giordano Bruno, 1548 - 1600 Burnt on the stake for heresy.
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when
it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
--Woody Allen
"It's a good thing the guy in charge of naming galaxies was
into chocolate bars and not Chinese food. Otherwise, the Milky Way
might have been named Moo Goo Gui Pan, and who wants to have to
learn about that?"
--Paul Paternoster
"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes
I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
--Arthur C. Clarke
"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from
realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory
frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad."
--Dave Barry.
"With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress."
-- Ransom K. Ferm.
"On devrait retaper notre pauvre planète, avant d'aller
bousiller celle des autres."
--Dessinateur de bandes dessinées américain [ Bill
Watterson ]
"Il ne peut pas y avoir de monarchie dans les planètes,
parce qu'elles accomplissent toutes une révolution."
--Journaliste et romancier français [ Aurélien
Scholl ]
"C'est à force de chasser pour obtenir de la nourriture
que l'homme a éprouvé l'envie d'étendre son
territoire tant et si bien qu'il a fini par fabriquer et envoyer
des fusées au-delà de la planète."
--Ecrivain français [ Bernard Werber ]
Extrait de L'empire des anges
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers
exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-- Douglas Adams
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made
a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-- Douglas Adams
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein
"Les femmes viennent de Venus. Les hommes mangent des Mars."
--Auteur et chanteur de rap français [ MC Solaar ]
Extrait de la chanson Baby Love
"Mars, Vénus, Saturne, ce qui m'étonne ce n'est
pas qu'on ait découvert tous ces astres lointains, c'est
qu'on connaisse leur nom."
--Avocat et journaliste français [ Jean Nohain ]

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