Microscopes Quotes - Page 2

• When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

  Joshua Lederberg

  School, Cells, Trying

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• At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

  Timothy Leary

  Years, Vision, Peers

  Timothy Leary (1994). “Das GeneRationen-Spiel & wie die HeimMedien die kulturelle Evolution designen”

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• I don't want to be Kato, the trial guy. It's like everything I do is under a microscope.

  Kato

  Guy, Trials, Want

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• I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

  Julia Roberts

  Dental, Fame, Print

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• I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

  Latrell Sprewell

  Sports, Shoes, Games

  Latrell Sprewell during Press Conference, www.insidehoops.com. October 11, 2003.

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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Vision, Dull

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• When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

  Alexis Arguello

  Country, Glasses, People

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• Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.

  Albert Claude

  Light, Names, Half

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• The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Science, Light, Ink

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• Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Science, Important

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.268, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Isis

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.336

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• You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Science, Names

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• I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Moving, Science, Men

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Adventure, Vision, Five Senses

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• I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

  Ajay Naidu

  Facts, Film, Laboratory

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• In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Friends, Heart, New Relationship

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• We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.

  Sigmund Freud

  Should, Instruments, Compounds

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• Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “ALEXANDRE DUMAS Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: The Three Musketeers Series, The Marie Antoinette Novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Valois Trilogy and more (Illustrated): Historical Novels & Adventure Classics: Queen Margot, Taking the Bastille, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Sicilian Bandit, The Conspirators, The Hero of the People, The Queen’s Necklace…”, p.6486, e-artnow

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• I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

  Sarah Kay

  Daughter, Motivation, Inspiration

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• [Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

  Hal Abelson

  Computer, Physics, Biology

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• The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.

  Ronald Ross

  Science, Panama Canal, Canals

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• There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

  Ed Helms

  Beautiful, Focus, Enough

  "The Office's Ed Helms, Paul Lieberstein on life after Michael Scott". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Journey, Hands

  "Bible Commentary - The GosBible Commentary - The Gospel of Lukepel of Luke".

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• He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Anger, Passion, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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