Telescope Quotes

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.

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 like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

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

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

With this method, we let the gravity of a dim, intervening star act as a giant natural telescope for us, magnifying a more distant star, which then temporarily looks brighter.

The opening of this telescope represents one of those rare moments in a field of scientific endeavor when a great leap forward is enabled.

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

What the crew did was put the turbocharger on this telescope. The Advanced Camera is going to add 10 times the capability to Hubble.

For my own family, we lived out in the country and we'd go out in the yard with the telescope. I'd point out the stars and the planets.

I think what really makes this telescope special is its high sensitivity, especially in spectroscopy.

We're using new manufacturing techniques and new facilities to produce unprecedented lightweight precision optics for the Webb Telescope. That the mirror segments are moving smoothly through a process with such rigorous specifications is a tribute to the manufacturing team's expertise.