Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. — John Wagner Copy Share Image
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay],… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 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
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
O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre! — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I don't have any hobbies because my working job is my hobby. What I do is I spend my whole time looking… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden… — Steven Johnson 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
Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We… — Chet Raymo Copy Share Image
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that… — Walter Savage Landor 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 immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
