Telescopes Quotes

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

— George Carlin

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

— Johannes Kepler

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Victor Hugo

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

— Isaac Newton

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

— Robert Frost

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When I managed the world’s largest telescopes atop Mauna Kea, I never knew that I would end up campaigning for their closure.”

— Steven Magee

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

— Christopher Hitchens

“I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that…

— Steven Magee

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

— Victor Hugo

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

— Garik Israelian

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if…

— George Santayana

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become,…

— Julian Barnes

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I…

— Anonymous

One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then…

— Thomas S. Monson

When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe.…

— Fabiola Gianotti

I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and…

— Taylor Swift

I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about…

— Galileo Galilei

Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.…

— Christopher Hitchens

It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing…

— Seth Shostak

We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our…

— William J. Clinton

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…

— Hannes Alfven

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

— Norton Juster

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There…

— Alice O. Howell

“(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

“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

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

— Kamasi Washington

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

— Johannes Kepler

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

— Bruce Lee

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

— Dr. Seuss

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin