David H. Levy Quotes

Canada, Astronomer
May 22, 1948

David H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.

Also known as Science Writer

To the optimist, pessimists are neurotic; to the pessimist, optimists are deluded.

David H. Levy
Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

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- Want
- Cats
- Comets

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder where you are. Looking up is no solution; The sky's so full of light pollution.

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- Star
- Sky
- Solution
Winning isn’t as fun as losing is miserable.

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- Fun
- Winning
- Losing
Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.

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- Things
- Worse
- Odds
Insight is the booby prize of life.

David H. Levy
- Insight
- Prize
- Booby
To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.

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- Worry
- Neurotic
- Replacing
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.

David H. Levy
- Things
- Misery
- Eliminate