Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this.
My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
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.
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.
I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.
I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.
I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.
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.
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.