Telescopes Quotes

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

  Josh Billings

  Relationship, Jealousy, Hate

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

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  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.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Distance, Mean

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.31, Ballantine Books

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• You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

  Alan Watts

  Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Cosmos

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• Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

  Dr. Seuss

  Cells, Imagination, Brain

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  New Relationship, Eye, Perspective

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Truth, Ocean

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Sky, Finding God

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• If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Mirrors, Use, Faults

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Stars, Agents

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• I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

  Ezra Cornell

  Moon, Mountain, Fine

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• I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Sky, Desire, Use

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

  Victor Hugo

  Time, Science, Past

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

  Frederick Franck

  Vision, Lenses, Looks

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• Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Journey, Hands

  "Bible Commentary - The GosBible Commentary - The Gospel of Lukepel of Luke".

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Cobol

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Believe, Years, Crowds

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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

  Sky, Study, Idiot

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.68, Random House

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• 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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• Through our science we have created magnificent spacecrafts and telescopes to explore the night and the light and the half light. We have made visible things that are invisible to the unaided eye. We have brought the dreamy heavens down to Earth, held them in the mind's eye. Our explorations have produced a vast archive of remarkable astronomical images... The riches are too many for choices, the revelations beautiful and dreadful. Who can look at these images and not be transformed? The heavens declare God's glory.

  Chet Raymo

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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