Before Quote by Andrea M. Ghez

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I…

— Clyde Tombaugh

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

— George Carlin

The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has shown the…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Anonymous

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was…

— Anthony Doerr

The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.

— Sandra Faber

The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.

— Nancy Roman

“(LBT)—currently one of the world’s most advanced optical telescopes—where, among other”

— Cris Putnam

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

— Sandra Faber

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

— Ezra Cornell