Top 211 Telescope Quotes & Sayings

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.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

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

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.

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

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.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

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.

I'll go to church with anyone who's willing to smoke pot and look through a telescope with me.

The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

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

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

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

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

I was the one with a subscription to 'Sky and Telescope' magazine as a kid while my friends were reading 'Tiger Beat.'

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate.

The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.

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.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

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. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.

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

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.

there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.

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.

If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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

Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.

I kind of feel like I found my cause in life servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi.

A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil.

Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.

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

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

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.

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

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

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.

The team at the Space Telescope Science Institute has a demonstrated record of meeting the high-performance challenges of operating the Hubble Space Telescope and preparing for the James Webb Space Telescope.

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.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

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