I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like,… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image
“Whether he sleeps or wakes, whether he runs or walks, whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I look at the sun all the time and have no eye issues, other than those associated with aging. I wear glasses… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even… — Andrew Gould Copy Share Image
You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to… — Heinrich Hertz Copy Share Image
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
