Scope Quotes

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

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

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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.

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?

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

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!

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum.

Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I do not think that it will be possible to discover anything easily nowadays that would lead us to revise our entire outlook as radically as was possible in the days when telescopes and microscopes were still new.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do.

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

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