quotes about Telescopes
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
-- Alan Watts -
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.
-- Alan Watts -
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
-- Boonaa MohammedSource : Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017
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The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.
-- Claude Nicollier -
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The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
-- Claude Nicollier -
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.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
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.
-- David WillettsSource : Source: www.theguardian.com
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I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.
-- Dr. Seuss -
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
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.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
-- Ezra Cornell -
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
-- Fred Allen -
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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 -
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
-- Garik Israelian -
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 -
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 -
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O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
-- Johannes Kepler -
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.
-- John Wagner -
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
-- Kamasi WashingtonSource : "A New Standard: Kamasi Washington's Modern Jazz Revolution". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. June 9, 2015.
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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 -
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The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace -
LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.
-- Stanislav GrofSource : "LSD Psychotherapy". Book by Stanislav Grof, 1980.
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I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
-- Story MusgraveSource : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
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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.
-- Theodore Parker -
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.
-- Umberto GuidoniSource : "Preflight Interview: Umberto Guidoni". Interview with Kim Dismukes, spaceflight.nasa.gov. April 7, 2002.
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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
-- Victor Hugo -
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.
-- William HerschelSource : "The Herschel Chronicle: the Life-story of William Herschel and his Sister". Book by Constance Anne Lubbock, Caroline Herschel, 102, 1933.
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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?
-- William Least Heat-Moon -
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
-- Andrea M. GhezSource : "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.
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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.
-- Dimitar SasselovSource : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.
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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.
-- Dov Davidoff -