Microscopes Quotes - Page 6

• I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Technology, Thinking

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• If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Struggle, Water, Laughing

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• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  Wayne Gretzky

  Fun, Responsibility, Games

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

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• The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Science, Figures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Media, Firsts, First Lady

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• The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

  Leonora Carrington

  Eye, Vision, Tasks

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• I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.14, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming.

  Megan Fox

  News Stories, Matter, Firsts

  "JONAH HEX Press Conference: Read or Listen to Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, Director Jimmy Hayward and Producer Andrew Lazar". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

  Vera Nazarian

  Color, Law, Justice

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• My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Believe, Thinking

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• 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

  Regret, Thinking, Telescopes

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• The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was almost worn out, the screws being rusted with sweat from my hands and forehead, and my only remaining eye-piece being cracked... Fortunately invaluable oil-imraersion object-glass remained good.

  Ronald Ross

  Eye, Glasses, Hands

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• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  Randy Schekman

  School, Algae, Hours

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• 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, Hiding, Hiding Place

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.334, New World Library

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• [2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.

  Christina Aguilera

  Divorce, Years, Skins

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• I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Science, Blood, Hands

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• My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

  Peter Lynch

  Zero, Fun, Typical

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Writing, Cells

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• Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1064, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Reality, Blood, Tests

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.350, Scholastic Inc.

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• They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Responsibility, Government, Media

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• The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says.. the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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• Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, People, Soul

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries: 1895-1910”

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• One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at my brother through the telescope of scorn, and I said, "How small my brother is." Then I looked into the mirror of truth and I said, "How like me my brother is."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Brother, Men, Mirrors

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• No matter what I do, I can't help but feel that I'm under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny.

  Steve Aoki

  Silly, Hurtful, Example

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