Amateur Quote by Andrew Gould

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

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

— Dziga Vertov

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

— Anonymous

Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the…

— Lyman Spitzer

We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone who, ignoring…

— Samael Aun Weor

There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through…

— Ernst Boris Chain

Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— George Santayana

Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson