Telescopes Quotes - Page 6

• There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Issues, Mind, Doe

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

  James R Newman

  Math, Discovery, Achievement

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Failure

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• Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough much is yet unknown, but I do not think that it will be possible to discover anything easily nowadays that would lead us to revise our entire outlook as radically as was possible in the days when telescopes and microscopes were still new.

  Heinrich Hertz

  Regret, Thinking, Sometimes

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

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Husband, Book

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• If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first
  century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides
  telescopes are unnatural.

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Moving, People, Mountain

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

  Yuri Milner

  Life, Intelligent, World

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• The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Religious, Distance

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• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  Diane Ackerman

  Past, Poetry, Blur

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Heaven, Drug, Citizens

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Space, House

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• Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Gentleman, Wigs, Facts

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• Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Long, Age

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics”

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• Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

  Theodore Parker

  Stars, Men, Ends

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1312, Library of Alexandria

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• Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

  Mason Cooley

  Sublime, Binoculars

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• No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

  Hugh Elliot

  Powerful, Atheism, Purpose

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• 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.

  Jan Struther

  Family, Believe, Successful

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

  David Willetts

  Next, Inquiry, Scientist

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Children, Airports

  "Theo van Doesburg". Book by Joost Baljeu, p. 123, 1974.

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• What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?

  Camille Flammarion

  Beautiful, Cutting, Intelligent

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• Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Opposites, Long, Age

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109

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

  Edwin Lefevre

  Battle, Tape, Goes On

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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