Quotessence
Home / Topics / Microscopes Quotes

Microscopes Quotes

Browse 172 quotes about Microscopes.

Related topics

TelescopesIfsPeopleLooksEyeWorldScienceSeeingThinkingVisionWayKnowsHumansMindUseWaterInstrumentsLittlesMenShouldUniverseCellsGlassesLightSaid

Microscopes Quotes

“Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.”

HumansMeanPurposeIndividualHuman BeingsConsciousnessVisionClearDependsAdvantageSightIndividualityGlassesObjectivesBroadsDisadvantagesPrecisionExhaustionMicroscopesMagnifyingMagnifying Glass
Author:Colin Wilson
Create image

“CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all.”

WayMeanStuffClearGrowingTypeFitComputerCreatingShotsStartingReactionsParksChemicalsPeterImageryWeird ThingsMicroscopesYeastCgiChemical Reactions
Author:Darren Aronofsky
Create image

“You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”

IfsMenWayHas BeensSelfWholeUseNationsMoonInstrumentsCleanGods WillHorribleDirtyGlimpseLensesAnother WayTelescopesMicroscopes
Book:A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
Create image

“It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.”

MenLooksMeanSeemsSoundPerfectBoysStageStyleBaseballHarderExpectedShirtsJeansT ShirtCapsMicroscopesBaseball Caps
Author:Carrie Underwood
Create image

“I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.”

ThinkingRealUniverseActorsSecretLike YouDirectorsTheaterCamerasSurfaceReal LifeInvisibleFascinatingExploringLensesMicroscopesCamera Lenses
Author:Isabelle Huppert
Create image

“In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.”

WayDifferentHelpingUseShowsTurnsWonderCasesStudyObjectsDrawsMirrorsDelightVariousVersionsGreekScholarLensesTranslationsHebrewMicroscopesPuzzled
Author:Amy Carmichael
Create image

“The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.”

WellsTwoStoriesLightAgeSpeakWaterDarkAcceptingOne ThingYouthMirrorsOld AgeMultitudesMicroscopesDrop Of WaterYouth And Old AgeOpaque
Book:Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
Create image

“You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a lot more. You might hear more warmth out of a thicker string gauge. But in the practical world, like with us, we're playing An Evening With... so it's three hours of music, and our music is pretty challenging as far as the technical aspect. And I found after awhile that I was killing myself.”

WorldLooksMightAbleCertainThreeFoundSoundHoursChallengesMusic IsAspectKillingStudiosPracticalsEveningStringsWarmthMicroscopesGaugesKilling Myself
Author:John Petrucci
Create image

“Everyone's going to have a racist tweet, a homophobic tweet, a xenophobic tweet, a misogynist tweet. Everyone's going to have a tweet or a post or something that's not going to be ideal, and because of that, you can't really throw stones too hard at the people that do, because if we examined your life in every way, shape, or form, went through every single post with a fine-toothed comb and under that microscope, would it come out all sunshine and lollipops?”

PeopleIfsWayHardFormFineShapesIdealsStonesPostsRacistSunshineTweetMicroscopesCombsHomophobicLollipop
Author:Brad Williams
Create image

“We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.”

HumansKindMeanWholeHuman BeingsSpaceVisionAll KindsLimitationNervesTechnologicalTime And SpaceSpectrumTelescopesMicroscopesScaffoldingHubbleHubble Space Telescope
Author:Jason Silva
Create image

“For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard.”

PeopleThinkingChildrenLongMadeHardBigsRememberHouseFeltBitsDealsCarBabyGayMarriedLong TimePressesNervousSeatsShockedBig DealMicroscopesTaking Pictures
Author:Jo Brand
Create image

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”

LooksHateLove IsRelationshipLove YouEnvyJealousyJealousRomantic LoveEnviousTelescopesFunny RelationshipEnviedMicroscopesJealousy EnvyJealousy And EnvyLove JealousyJealous And EnvyLove And JealousyEnvy And SuccessJealousy And InsecurityHubble Space TelescopeEnvy And Greed
Book:Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
Create image

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”

MenWorldYearsMightLastsWaterGreaterCenturyThis WorldCreaturesConcernVariousMortalsWar Of The WorldsLast YearNineteenth CenturyTransientMicroscopesDrop Of WaterSwarms
Book:Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)
Create image

“My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)”

PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsBelieveKindLongSaidStillsHardUsedWhiteSawsTeacherLike YouSickAll KindsGradesLong AgoBathsGermsMicroscopes
Author:Jodi Picoult
Create image

“Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough it looks good. Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original. Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope. And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.”

IfsNeedsShouldLooksEnoughLawJusticeColorLowsOriginalsResolutionAccuratePortraitsTelescopesMicroscopesSemblanceApproximationPixels
Author:Vera Nazarian
Create image