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Scope Quotes - Page 2

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.

"The Herschel Chronicle: the Life-story of William Herschel and his Sister". Book by Constance Anne Lubbock, Caroline Herschel, 102, 1933.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

Victor Hugo (2004). “The Essential Victor Hugo”, p.398, Oxford University Press, UK

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

"A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.

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.

Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.68, Random House

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”