Close Quote by Lennart Nilsson

One must be able to see the bigger picture in order to be able to focus on what needs to be magnified.

— Wade Gardner

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter…

— Andrea M. Ghez

I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate…

— Jill Tarter

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

— Gyorgy Kepes

The introduction of optical fiber systemswill revolutionize the communications network. The lowtransmission loss and the large bandwidth capability of the fibersystems allow signals to…

— Charles K. Kao

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have…

— David Hockney

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

— John Trumbull

...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from…

— Bruce Barnbaum

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

— Claude Nicollier

I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

— Ian K. Smith