Firsts Quote by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as exemplified by RIA, has shown the…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

— John M. Grunsfeld

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer Karl…

— Honor Harger

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

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

— Andrea M. Ghez

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and…

— Simon Newcomb

“I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was…

— Martin Ryle

Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the…

— Dziga Vertov

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

— Jeremy Rifkin

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

— Carolyn Porco

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the…

— Francois Arago