Telescopes Quotes

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

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?

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

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

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