41 Telescope Quotes for You to Enjoy

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope. John M. Grunsfeld

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope. Kamasi Washington

Music Jazz Other Telescope Like Lot Microscope

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality. Ken Goldberg

Reality Sense Radical Telescope Physical Like Always How Shift Affected Been Microscope Created Epistemology Things Technologies

Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the planets or the images from the Hubble Telescope. The fate of Columbia (like that of Challenger in 1986) reminded us that space is still a hazardous environment. Martin Rees

Fate Space Strikes Telescope Only Hazardous Columbia Environment Reminded Headlines Like Disaster Attracted Makes Still Hubble Than Ironically Interest Us Planets Less Flights Media Challenger Routine Images Shuttle

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral. Michael Shermer

Light Space Creation Universe Telescope Photograph Window More Through Glass Cathedral Hubble Than Stained Far Streaming Awe

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history. Michelle Phan

History Telescope Ancient Nerd Total Inspired Read Lot Very

A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself. Robert Woodrow Wilson

Space Sky Other Earth Telescope Components Atmosphere Only Pointing Also Sources Itself Radiation Ground Radio Including Receives

It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing for biology. The clumsy, if utilitarian, name of this mirrored monster is Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST. You can't use it yet, but a peak in the Chilean Andes has been decapitated to provide a level spot for placement. Seth Shostak

You Mother Will Biology Monster Telescope Astronomy Has-Been Bet Name Genome Spot Doing Been Provide Survey Placement Clumsy Use Sequencing Large Utilitarian Peak Level

We can never prove that we're alone in the universe. But the Allen Telescope Array could prove that we're not. Seth Shostak

Alone Universe Telescope Allen Could Never Array Prove

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. Seth Shostak

Time Age Seen Parents Looking Films Telescope Astronomy Atlas Pretty Had Sci-Fi Because Cheesy Got Normal Lot Up Grade Where Grew Eighth Eighth Grade Which Interested Apartment Planets By The Time

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. Stephen Lang

I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes up and points his telescope up at Jupiter and finds out, hey, Jupiter has these moons. Trevor Paglen

I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. Taylor Swift

Telescope Quotes

No more telescope quotes