Telescope Quotes

“I must be shutting up like a telescope.”

— Lewis Carroll

You won't find faith or hope down a telescope

— The Script

“I don't need telescope to see stars.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Are you an ‘Altidiot’?”

— Steven Magee

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

— Victor Hugo

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

— George Carlin

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

— Garik Israelian

“I will use science to shut down the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.”

— Steven Magee

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

— Johannes Kepler

The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.

— Heidi Hammel

“Before the telescope and the microscope were invented the mankind was wearing blinkers.”

— M.Z.Riffi

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

— John Wagner

I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most…

— Alison Goldfrapp

I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can…

— Paul McEuen

I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.

— Dov Davidoff

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

— Andrea M. Ghez

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

— Heidi Hammel

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

— Henry David Thoreau

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in…

— Robert Frost

Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they…

— Dziga Vertov

I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the…

— Alan G. Poindexter

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object…

— Allen Tate

“All high altitude workers have a right to be fully informed about the complete range of environmental toxins that they are being…

— Steven Magee

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

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery…

— Marie Rutkoski

Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted…

— Paul Virilio

“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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

“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio…

— Martin Ryle

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from…

— Norton Juster

“There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is a dead planet,…

— Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

“The following information really should be placed on all very high altitude job adverts and company contracts: WARNING – Very high altitude…

— Steven Magee

The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings…

— John Paul Caponigro

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a…

— Brad Leithauser

“What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758,…

— Charles Messier

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

— Fred Allen

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

— Napoleon Bonaparte