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The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.
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.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
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.
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.