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

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.

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.

Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.

The development of the telescope together with increased knowledge of things brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

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

I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

You are that vast thing that you see far far off with great telescopes.

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