Top 221 Microscope Quotes & Sayings

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

You're always under the microscope, you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

I get parents under the microscope and teach calming techniques for those moments when the heart races.

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

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

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.

What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope?

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.

I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope.

I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a binocular microscope, using strong reflected light as a source of illumination. Resting muscles observed in this way are usually quite pale, and the microscope reveals only a few capillaries at fairly regular intervals.

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

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

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

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.

You're always under the microscope, and you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

What's wonderful about Tolkien and Shakespeare is that they show up your own individual microscope. They're so infinitely vast. You can reinterpret them in so many ways.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Now that I'm a civilian again, I can once more comment on economic and financial issues without my words being put under the microscope by Fed watchers.

Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

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.

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. ...makes sense... If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need.

It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's immobilised, you can have it in the electron microscope and the water will not evaporate because in the electron microscope, it must be under vacuum, and water at normal temperature evaporates.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

Don't scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong

The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

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.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.