Bigger Quote by Martin Rees

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

— Barry Barish

“nanoscope, the young lab technician could easily study particles as small as one nanometer in diameter – the equivalent of one billionth”

— Nick Stephenson

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

— Ken Wilber

I can only speak for particle physics. But it has become obvious that on the experimental side, there has been a huge evolution in…

— Peter Higgs

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

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of…

— Anonymous

Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive…

— Edwin Powell Hubble

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money…

— Stephen Hawking

Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

“The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a…

— G.K. Chesterton

The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory.…

— Michio Kaku