#telescope

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

Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#milky-way #science #telescope #universe #change

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ↗

— Josh Billings

#envy #looks #microscope #telescope #through

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

#about #astronomy #computer #computer science #more

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#best #confirmation #first #get #gift

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#come #hubble #i #i believe #other

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

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

— Victor Hugo

#hence #microscope #past #past time #present

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#observatory #soul #telescope #without #would

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had