Amount Quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

— Richard J. Borden

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin…

— Ed Helms

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

— Anonymous

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;…

— Franz Kafka

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small;…

— Jason Silva

“To produce a valuable observation, one has first to have an idea of what to observe, a preconception of what is possible. Scientific advances…

— François Jacob

“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.”

— Orison Swett Marden