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Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.”

“The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.”

Ifs World Way Looks Ends Christian Religious Practice Modern Distance Deny Irony Proportion Maintaining Reducing Telescopes Religious Practices

Author:J. I. Packer

“If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope”

Ifs Use Mirrors Faults Telescopes

Author:Boonaa Mohammed

“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.”

Source: The Politics of Ecstasy

“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.”

Firsts Stills Beautiful Remember Saws Sky First Time Rings Remember When Telescopes Hairstyles Saturn Beautiful Images

Author:Umberto Guidoni

“I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.”

Way Use Desire Sky Intense Telescopes

Author:Clyde Tombaugh

“I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate.”

“Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.”

“I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].”

“Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.”

Men Firsts Use Values Culture Social Fire Fashion Higher Activity Authority Tools Arise Command Resolution Engines Rulers Compelled Assembly Steam Telescopes Cooperatives Iliad Steam Engines

Author:Rudolf Rocker

“The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.”

Night Found Views Pieces Moon Tools Equipment Telescopes Superb

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.”

Long Fantasy Planets Theory Familiar Ruins Aliens Logical Mars Vague Filling Invasion Celestial Ecological Telescopes Utopian Crimson Alien Invasion Tabula Rasa

Author:David Grinspoon

“After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.”

Mountain Decades Location Vans Telescopes

Author:Tim Ferriss

“For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.”

Mind Hard Reason Use Objects Critics Noses Hard Times Horizon Fixing Telescopes

Book:the man of letters in the modern world

Source: the man of letters in the modern world

“The telescope sweeps the sky without finding God.”

Science Sky Findings Telescopes Finding God

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?”

Way Turns Seeing Sight Radio Dust New Things New Ways Telescopes Microscopes Electrons Whiskers Scanning Quasars

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

“I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.”

Scientist Cancer Cells Lenses Telescopes Solar System Microscopes

Author:Gordon Gee

“Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.”

Mind Science Technology Telescopes Microscopes

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.”

“Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“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.”

May Science Clear Conception Capability Deceiving Physicist Telescopes Power Of Thought

Author:Hermann von Helmholtz

“Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.”

People Looks Television Scene Details Subtle Description Concrete Telephones Unlikely Telescopes

Author:Alexander Kluge

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