Telescope Quotes

132 quotes by 114 authors

• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. — Josh Billings
• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother… — Wernher von Braun
• A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. — Fred Allen
• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which… — Galileo Galilei
• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
• O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. — Johannes Kepler
• One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple… — Simon Newcomb
• The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
• Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens
• An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... — Orlando Aloysius Battista
• As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the… — Floyd E. Bloom
• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like… — Leigh Hunt
• Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for… — Hannes Alfven
• The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — John Timbs

Who Wrote These Telescope Quotes

114 authors contributed a total of 132 Telescope Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Telescope Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
• 4 Telescope Quotes by Dr. Seuss
• 4 Telescope Quotes by Galileo Galilei
• 3 Telescope Quotes by Seth Shostak
• 3 Telescope Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 2 Telescope Quotes by Claude Nicollier
• 2 Telescope Quotes by Michael Shermer
• 2 Telescope Quotes by Robert Frost
• 2 Telescope Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 2 Telescope Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Telescope Quote by Phillips Brooks
• 1 Telescope Quote by William Least Heat-Moon
• 1 Telescope Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer
• 1 Telescope Quote by Bob Dylan
• 1 Telescope Quote by Frederick Lenz
• 1 Telescope Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 Telescope Quote by J C Ryle
• 1 Telescope Quote by Mary Anne Radmacher
• 1 Telescope Quote by Larissa Ione
• 1 Telescope Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Telescope Quote by Gordon Gee
• 1 Telescope Quote by Julie Anne Peters
• 1 Telescope Quote by Steven Johnson
• 1 Telescope Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz
• 1 Telescope Quote by J D Salinger