Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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.
We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.
I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi.
For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel as if you've uncovered mystery in the cosmos.
His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.