Telescopes Quotes
150 quotes by 126 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,…
— Lyman Spitzer
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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
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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…
— Unknown Author
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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope,…
— Phillips Brooks
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The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to…
— Bob Dylan
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My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a…
— Galileo Galilei
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Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from the greatest planet…
— J C Ryle
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Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they…
— H. L. Mencken
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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough…
— Heinrich Hertz
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On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest…
— Francois Arago
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For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its…
— Andrew Gould
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The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of…
— James R Newman
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached…
— Camille Flammarion
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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe…
— Steven Johnson
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