Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

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.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

Some people look at big things, and other people look at very small things, but in a sense, we're all trying to understand the world around us.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.