Firsts Quote by Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

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

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

— Andrea M. Ghez

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

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the…

— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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

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

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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