Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision? — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see… — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes. — Hugh Elliot Copy Share Image
“Some professional astronomy telescopes are associated with unusual illnesses and deaths in their workers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the… — Floyd E. Bloom Copy Share Image
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
“Curious how much gas lurks among the stars in galaxies? Radio telescopes do that best. There is no knowledge of the cosmic… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so… — George S. Kaufman Copy Share Image
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
