Telescope Quotes

“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?”
― Galileo Galilei, Frammenti e lettere

“Never ever forget that you are a constellation and I have owned a telescope since the day I was born.”
― Rudy Francisco

“Why don’t you two take a little walk?” Eleni suggested. “The moon is beautiful tonight.”
“That’s a great idea.” Robby stood, releasing Olivia’s hand. “Will ye walk with me, lass?”
“Yes.” She grabbed her sweater, pulled it over her head, then fixed the clip that held her hair in place on
the back of her head.
“No funny stuff,” Eleni warned. “I’ll be watching with the telescope.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, The Vampire and the Virgin

“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, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”
― Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae

“There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is a dead planet, as they themselves are dead, so that the living Earth will never be visited by that forlorn ray of light, without a living source, without a living destination. Often on fine nights when the park of this establishment is vacant, I amuse myself with this marvelous instrument (telescope). I go upstairs, walk across the grass, sit on a bench in the Avenue of Oaks – and there, in my solitude, I enjoy the pleasure of weighing the rays of dead stars.”
― Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Tomorrow's Eve

“The very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea was always cold and the telescope domes were chilled to the nighttime temperature which was often below freezing in wintertime.”
― Steven Magee

“She was telescoping the stars on the roof top, not realizing stars on the sky gathered only to witness the bright star on earth as she smiled every time looking through the telescope”
― Kshanasurya

“I am a mal-acclimitization mutant.”
― Steven Magee

“Regarding the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, I am interested to know how much the international astronomy community has spent on advertising the biologically toxic project to the masses and how much has been spent on researching High Altitude Observatory Diseases (HAOD)?”
― Steven Magee

“I am the high altitude detective.”
― Steven Magee

“Do not be a professional astronomer’s altidiot.”
― Steven Magee

“Are you an ‘Altidiot’?”
― Steven Magee

“I am the insanity guru.”
― Steven Magee

“Defund Mauna Kea Observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“Spending time near the focal point of a large radio telescope may produce radiation sickness in the human.”
― Steven Magee

“As an engineer, I had a successful career managing the world’s largest telescopes and the largest solar photovoltaic power generation system in the USA. Where I went wrong was not understanding the systemic corruption that is present in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“As men tied to the Earth,
We dream of visiting the stars.
As men tied to the stars,
We will dream of returning home”
― Eric Bodge

“2.4 billion dollars can buy one Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) or $40 telescopes for sixty million children.”
― Steven Magee

“Aricibo Observatory was the ‘Titanic’ of professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“The Thirty Meter Telescope does not belong atop a sacred Hawaiian mountain.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to make the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) management team uncomfortable, you ask this question: Could you direct me to the medical research papers that document the long term illnesses, diseases, and deaths in all of the La Palma and Mauna Kea summit staff (current and past employees) since they started operation?”
― Steven Magee

“I am not going to lay down in front of a bulldozer and protest the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) construction, as that is so dangerous! Instead, I will develop the science to shut down the known biologically toxic project in Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

“While I find the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) concerning, what is going on in Space is probably a much greater threat to humanity.”
― Steven Magee

“The National Science Foundation (NSF) will find my testimony regarding the biological toxicity of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and in my books.”
― Steven Magee

“The biological science went against high altitude professional astronomy over a century ago.”
― Steven Magee

“You need attitude to research altitude!”
― Steven Magee

“It is time to end the willful incompetence regarding altitude sickness and shift work disorder in professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“To learn about cells, look through a microscope. To learn about stars, looks through a telescope. To learn about yourself, look through your laugh.‎”
― ĐƠN GIẢN, The Simple Book of Infinity

“To learn about cells, look through a microscope. To learn about stars, looks through a telescope.‎ To learn about yourself, look through your laugh‎”
― ĐƠN GIẢN, The Simple Book of Infinity