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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
With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. -- Stephen Lang
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. -- Story Musgrave
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. -- Victor Hugo
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens. -- Stephen Hawking
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 Guidoni
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -- Dr. Seuss
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
I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998. -- Alan G. Poindexter
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. -- Taylor Swift
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
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
The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents. -- Chelsea Clinton
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds. -- Seth Shostak
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. -- Martin Rees
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few. -- Seth Shostak
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. -- Marie Rutkoski
It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement. -- Seth Shostak
The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool. -- Michael J. Massimino
The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God. -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope. -- Dr. Seuss
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. -- Johannes Kepler
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope -- Boonaa Mohammed
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope. -- Dr. Seuss
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into. -- George Carlin
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner. -- Claude Nicollier
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. -- Kamasi Washington
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. -- Robert Frost
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. -- Bruce Lee
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? -- Victor Hugo
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. -- Christopher Hitchens
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. -- Victor Hugo
Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study. -- Jerry Spinelli
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. -- Fred Allen
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see..... -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me. -- Joe Rogan
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals. -- Garik Israelian
Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano. -- Rita Rudner
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. -- John Wagner
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. -- Leonora Carrington
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? -- Francis Arthur Freeth
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA. -- Andrea M. Ghez
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
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. -- Dr. Seuss
The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon. -- Arthur C. Clarke
You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht. -- Chad Harbach
His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been. -- Julie Anne Peters
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 is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry. -- Stanislav Grof
Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time. -- Richard Preston
A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases. -- Edwin Lefevre
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. -- J. D. Salinger
I saw you thro' a telescope and was so struck by your Charms that from that time to this I have not tasted human food." -- Jane Austen
I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time. -- Alison Goldfrapp
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
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality. -- Ken Goldberg
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. -- Mark Goddard
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. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope. -- Heinz Pagels
'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together. -- David Cross
I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope. -- Gordon Gee
With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together. -- David Cross
Now go to bed, you crazy night owl! You have to be at NASA early in the morning. So they can look for your penis with the Hubble telescope. -- Tina Fey
As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies. -- Richard Whately
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. -- George Santayana
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. -- Leigh Hunt
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite "?telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?[Acerbic comment about directors of Brunner Mond, where he worked.] -- Francis Arthur Freeth
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
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
I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more. -- Kevin Dillon
Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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. -- Clyde Tombaugh
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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 Willetts
Everything is stuck together. People are stuck together. They can't change. Ideas are stuck together - they're irrevocable. We think that the end of the universe is as far as the telescope can see. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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 Sasselov
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer. -- Dimitar Sasselov
In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one. -- Robert Frost
This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box. -- Seth Shostak

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