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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Dijkstra
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. -- Alan Watts
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon. -- Ezra Cornell
I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery. -- Clyde Tombaugh
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
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings
Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope. -- Dr. Seuss
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. -- Johannes Kepler
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. -- Christopher Hitchens
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? -- Victor Hugo
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. -- Henry David Thoreau
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. -- Victor Hugo
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
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
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
For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage. -- Andrew Gould
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
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes, biology is about microscopes or chemistry is about beakers and test tubes. Science is not about tools. It is about how we use them, and what we find out when we do. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made. -- Christopher Hitchens
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime. -- Mason Cooley
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
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
It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets. -- Seth Shostak
After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain. -- Timothy Ferriss
For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage. -- Andrew Gould
By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea. -- John Updike
Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle. -- Seth Shostak
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion. -- Andrea M. Ghez
It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible. -- Peter Diamandis
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
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Dijkstra
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. -- Edsger Dijkstra
No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes. -- Hugh Elliot
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
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. -- Jesse Lee Bennett
Pride makes us long for a solution to things "? a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear. -- Julian Barnes
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance. -- Francois Arago
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur. -- Diane Ackerman
The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life. -- Yuri Milner
I was struck by - Einstein's a fascinating figure who didn't have any instruments that he used, he didn't use telescopes, he used his mind to try to understand the universe. -- Jonathan Nolan
After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain. -- Timothy Ferriss
I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind. -- Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours. -- William Herschel

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