Telescopes Quotes

150 quotes by 127 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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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

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