Telescopes Quotes

150 Telescopes quotes by 126 unique authors

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells,… — Archibald Garrod
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… — Edgar Allan Poe
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details,… — Alexander Kluge
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too… — Marianne Boruch
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. — Claude Nicollier
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore… — Claude Nicollier
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science… — Edsger Dijkstra
There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music… — Ernst Boris Chain
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us… — Ambrose Bierce
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all… — Jason Calacanis
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce… — Luther Burbank
I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind… — Jonathan Nolan
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. — Kamasi Washington
The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;… — John Paul Caponigro
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something… — C.S. Lewis
The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes… — Paul Davies

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