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The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.
Claude Nicollier

Authors on Telescopes Quotes: Edsger Dijkstra Alan Watts Neil deGrasse Tyson Kamasi Washington Clyde Tombaugh Dimitar Sasselov Joseph Campbell Sherman Alexie George Carlin William Least Heat-Moon J. D. Salinger Boonaa Mohammed Dov Davidoff Jonathan Safran Foer Robert Frost Edwin Powell Hubble Leigh Hunt Umberto Guidoni Galileo Galilei Dr. Seuss John Wagner Story Musgrave Ezra Cornell Gilbert K. Chesterton Victor Hugo Garik Israelian Alasdair MacIntyre Hermann von Helmholtz Stephen Lang Chad Harbach David Willetts Joe Rogan Theodore Parker
2.
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
Boonaa Mohammed

3.
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

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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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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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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra

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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

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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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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
Johannes Kepler

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

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Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I do not think that it will be possible to discover anything easily nowadays that would lead us to revise our entire outlook as radically as was possible in the days when telescopes and microscopes were still new.
Heinrich Hertz

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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

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Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
Alasdair MacIntyre

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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
Mason Cooley

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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

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There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Edwin Powell Hubble

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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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Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.
Kamasi Washington

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The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
Pierre-Simon Laplace

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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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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

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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

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The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
Alan Watts

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

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The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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

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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

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I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.
Dr. Seuss

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New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
William Least Heat-Moon

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I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
Story Musgrave

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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

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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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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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The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
Andrea M. Ghez

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
Garik Israelian

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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

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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

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The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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

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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.
Tim Ferriss

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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