Telescopes quotes
49 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
"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."
"O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!"
"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes."
"LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you."
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"Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope."
"The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself."
"Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?"
"New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?"
"The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos."
"Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at."
"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."
"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 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."
"It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope."
"I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this."
"I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into."
"The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger."
