Telescopes Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of Godâ€™s hand, from the greatest planet… — J C Ryle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the stories I love is how Gutenbergâ€™s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe… — Steven Johnson

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