Microscope Quotes

113 quotes by 105 authors

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells… — Flannery O'Connor
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of Godâ€™s hand, from the greatest planet… — J C Ryle
One of the stories I love is how Gutenbergâ€™s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe… — Steven Johnson
Our eyes see very little and very badly â€“ so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now… — Dziga Vertov
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells. — Joshua Lederberg
One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at… — Thomas S. Monson
Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of… — Chogyam Trungpa
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? — Francis Arthur Freeth
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are… — Herb Alpert
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone… — Philip K. Howard
I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that… — Sarah Kay
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched… — George Santayana
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. — Stanislav Grof
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation… — Alan Watts
Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many… — Alice O. Howell
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts. — Elia Kazan
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which… — Edith Hamilton
My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. — David Lean

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