Telescopes Quotes
150 quotes by 127 authors
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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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
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
— Fred Allen
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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
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If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms,…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that…
— William J. Clinton
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our…
— Carl Sagan
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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
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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
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O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
— Johannes Kepler
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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
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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
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
— Christopher Hitchens
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.....
— Orlando Aloysius Battista
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