#telescope

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

— Alan Watts

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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#first #first time #i #i remember #image

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

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

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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

#detecting #even #existing #hand #long

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

— Fred Allen

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Story Musgrave

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