Quote by Donna Tartt

“Well the Dutch invented the microscope," she said. "They were jewellers, grinders of lenses. The want it all as detailed as possible because even…

— Donna Tartt

“The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.”

— Richard J. Borden

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?”

— Victor Hugo

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field…

— David Fairchild

“round lenses augmented them, and his pomaded”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,”

— Peter Meredith

Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils,…

— Edith Wharton

I didn't really know what I was looking at when I first came across Man Ray's 'Dust Breeding,' his photograph of a work by…

— Cornelia Parker

“How were you able to see at once: a glass and an apple, a statue and a rifle, a woman and a cage? When…

— Abdo Wazen

“...Thought lengths it, pulls an invisible world through a needle's eye one detail at a time, ...”

— Jennifer Grotz

“Nothing is right or wrong. It's all an interpretation of which lens we are looking through.”

— Tarun Sharma