Optical Instruments Quotes

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

Optics can drive an economy.

With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that's built, you don't need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There's nothing wrong with Hubble's mirror.

Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

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 micro-sphere.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

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

I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.