Telescope Quotes

132 Telescope quotes by 112 unique authors

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings.… — Umberto Guidoni
I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make… — John N. Bahcall
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom… — Galileo Galilei
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever… — Rudolf Rocker
The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon. — Arthur C. Clarke
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there… — Allen Tate
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the… — William Least Heat-Moon
Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the… — Frederick Lenz
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see… — Mary Anne Radmacher
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that… — Henry Ward Beecher
I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer… — Gordon Gee
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details,… — Alexander Kluge
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too… — Marianne Boruch
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. — Claude Nicollier
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore… — Claude Nicollier
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music… — Ernst Boris Chain
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us… — Ambrose Bierce
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all… — Jason Calacanis
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce… — Luther Burbank
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington
The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;… — John Paul Caponigro

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