Telescopes Quotes

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

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

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

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

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

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

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

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

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

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

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment.

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground.