Telescopes Quotes

150 Telescopes quotes by 126 unique authors

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are… — Jorge Luis Borges
The pretty nurse had just injected her with something that totally rocked, and if she wanted to think about boinking a bronzed, tattooed, impossibly handsome… — Larissa Ione
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as… — Philip Yancey
This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified… — Jeanette Winterson
His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been. — Julie Anne Peters
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. — J D Salinger
They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and… — Norton Juster
Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of… — Lawrence M. Krauss
The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the… — Carl Sagan
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life… — Madeleine L'Engle
His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through… — Laini Taylor
I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out… — Ray Bradbury
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. — Robert Frost
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to… — Edwin Powell Hubble
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years.… — Timothy Leary
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less. — Frederick Franck
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity… — John Green
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are… — Steven Weinberg
It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have… — Seth Shostak
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as… — John Updike
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the… — Edwin Powell Hubble

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