Telescope Quotes

132 Telescope quotes by 112 unique authors

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and… — Norton Juster
Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of… — Lawrence M. Krauss
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out… — Ray Bradbury
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. — Robert Frost
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years.… — Timothy Leary
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. — Andrea M. Ghez
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals. — Garik Israelian
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical… — Ken Goldberg
A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. — Michael Shermer
The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That… — Michael J. Massimino
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is… — Seth Shostak
This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to… — Seth Shostak
The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the… — Seth Shostak
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with… — Chelsea Clinton
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the… — Martin Rees
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of… — Marie Rutkoski
I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look… — Kevin Dillon
What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings… — Clyde Tombaugh
With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we… — Mark Goddard
Watching a baseball game on television is like chasing the great white whale in a goldfish bowl. It trivializes everything: men two inches high, a… — Unknown Author
Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present. — Conrad Hilton
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. — Theodore Roszak
You tell that bitch give me my space like a telescope. — Lil Wayne

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