Telescopes Quotes - Page 2

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.

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?

Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle cameras on rockets so that it would be possible to watch the sky.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

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