#telescope

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#observatory #soul #telescope #without #would

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

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

Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#milky-way #science #telescope #universe #change

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

— Fred Allen

#better #even #good #magnify #press

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

#about #astronomy #computer #computer science #more

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

#engineer #engines #father #guess #i

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