Quotes by Telescopes 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? Galileo Galilei kepler telescopes laughing I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into. George Carlin telescopes science thinking The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Gilbert K. Chesterton telescopes microscopes world 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. Heinrich Hertz telescopes regret thinking 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. Hermann von Helmholtz telescopes may science It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. J. D. Salinger one-of-those-days telescopes ends I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me. Joe Rogan telescopes church looks O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre! Johannes Kepler telescopes science knowledge Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. John Wagner telescopes thanks looks She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. Jonathan Safran Foer telescopes powerful mirrors 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. Joseph Campbell telescopes microscopes hiding Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. Kamasi Washington telescopes microscopes jazz 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. Leigh Hunt telescopes monsters love Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime. Mason Cooley binoculars telescopes sublime The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos. Neil deGrasse Tyson telescopes cosmos science 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. Neil deGrasse Tyson telescopes cameras dog 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. Paul Virilio telescopes rockets sky The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God. Pierre-Simon Laplace telescopes sky science 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. Robert Frost telescopes towns science 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 telescopes study sky «123»
