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Tag Name "Telescope" (72)

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TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
Ambrose Bierce
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?
Galileo Galilei
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
Robert Frost
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I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
George Carlin
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The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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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
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With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.
Stephen Lang
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.
Theodore Parker
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Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.
Jerry Spinelli
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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
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I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.
Joe Rogan
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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
Alexander Kluge
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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
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Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
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Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.
Aron Ralston
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Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
Kamasi Washington
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If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
Boonaa Mohammed
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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
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
Christopher Hitchens
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