Quotes of: Telescope Keyword

(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.) Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four time...

George S. Kaufman

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

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.

Claude Nicollier

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

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance. If the boat is becalmed, one of the telescopes will be in continual ...

Flaubert's Parrot

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.

Timothy Ferriss

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 secon...

Andrea M. Ghez

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...

Seth Shostak

Scuttle: [Looking throught the wrong end of a telescope, shouting as if Ariel was far away] Whoa! Mermaid off the port bow! Ariel! How you doin', kid? [Ariel pulls down the telescope] Scuttle: Whoa, what a swim.

The Little Mermaid

Faster Doudle, Able Seaman: [as he examines the Galapagos through his telescope] I can't see any women. Just ducks and lizards. Nehemiah Slade, Able Seaman: [he snatches the telescope to see for himself] What, no women? It ain't natural.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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

Fred Allen

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not.

Seth Shostak

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

Alan Watts

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

Claude Nicollier

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.

Alison Goldfrapp

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

Where the Wasteland Ends

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

Edsger Dijkstra