Quote by Trevor Paglen

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions…

— Sarah Parcak

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

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?

— Francis Arthur Freeth

We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.

— Howard Rheingold

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

— George Carlin

i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.

— Anonymous

If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

— Boonaa Mohammed

“From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair of "big…

— Christopher Moore

“when it’s officially allowed through a one-way mirror, it’s not called spying. It’s called surveillance.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Goodness gracious me,' exclaimed Alexia, 'what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars…

— Gail Carriger

How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?

— George Carlin

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

— Ezra Cornell