#telescope

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#observatory #soul #telescope #without #would

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#far #heaven #into #men #often

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

— Story Musgrave

#did #go #hubble #i #investor

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

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

— Claude Nicollier

#cover #efficient #future #infrared #manner

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it. ↗

— Will Rogers

#always #anybody #believe #crowd #fellow

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

#concrete #description #details #dreamed #enables

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from. ↗

— Allen Tate

#came #critics #directly #fixing #hard

Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system. ↗

— Daniel Keidl

#matron #sun #telescope #home

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar. ↗

— Brad Leithauser

#astronomy #chile #metaphor #novelists #telescope