Telescopes Quotes - Page 9

• "I think I know the real reason." "Which is?" "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever invents the telescope and the spectroscope and starts looking in between the stars, what do they find?" He knocked the glass on the table. "Loads of stuff, but much of it alcohol." He drank from the glass. "Humanoids are the galaxy's way of trying to get rid of all that alcohol."

  Iain Banks

  Stars, Real, Thinking

  "Use of Weapons (The Culture, Book 3)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter IX, p. 148), September 13, 1990.

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• The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Eye, Men, Use

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1885). “Bye-path Meadow”

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• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

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• LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

  Alan Watts

  Lsd, Microscopes, Instruments

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• Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

  John Wagner

  Looks, Thanks, Invention

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• 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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• A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

  Michael Shermer

  Glasses, Light, Space

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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

  Dog, Cameras, Taught

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Science, May, Deceiving

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• 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.

  Paul Virilio

  Sky, Rockets, Firsts

  Source: ctheory.net

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• One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Expression, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Computer, Astronomy, Computer Science

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Wine, Oxygen

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• 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.

  Allen Tate

  Hard Times, Mind, Horizon

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  David Grinspoon

  Long, Mars, Invasion

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• Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Phones, Meditation

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• Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

  Victor Hugo

  Vision, Microscopes, Ends

  "Les misérables".

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