Microscope Quotes

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. (Josh Billings)
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins, which of the two has the grander view. View quote
Victor Hugo
When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud. View quote
Alexis Arguello
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record. View quote
Herb Alpert
I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope. View quote
Lisa Guerrero
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means. View quote
Frank Zappa
At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos. View quote
Timothy Leary
It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun! (Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux)
To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly. View quote
Roman Vishniac
You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope. View quote
Victor Hugo
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. View quote
Victor Hugo
Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred. View quote
Stanisław Lem
Psychohistory, like psychoanalysis, is a science in which the researcher's feelings are as much or even more a part of his research equipment than his eyes or his hands. [...] Weighing of complex motives can only be accomplished by identification with human actors, the usual suppression of all feeling preached and followed by most "science" simply cripples a psychohistorian as badly as it would cripple a biologist to be forbidden the use of a microscope. The emotional development of a psychohistorian is therefore as much a topic for discussion as his or her intellectual development. View quote
Lloyd deMause
Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. View quote
Theodore Roszak
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory. View quote
Ajay Naidu
I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied. View quote
Latrell Sprewell
Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven. (Ronan Farrow)
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
One day I attempted to reach silence directly, with greater resignation, surrendering to the fate that governs any profound struggle. My millions of furious clawings became millions of grains of dust, of sand.. .A new geo-graphy lit my way, carrying me from surprise to surprise: suggestions of unusual combinations and molecular structures, of atomic phenomena, of the world of galaxies or of images in a microscope. The symbolism of dust - 'to be one with dust, here lies the profound identity, that is, the inner profundity between man and nature' (Tao Te Ching) -, of ashes, of the earth from whence we come and to which we return, of the solidarity born when we realise that the differences among ourselves are like those between one grain of sand and the next.. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
This does not mean that scientists can't be religious. We can encompass irrational beliefs without regret and without obligation-I can, actually, look at my kids in a different way than I would an experimental subject under my microscope. I also do not pretend that I view my children rationally and objectively, untainted by emotion or history, and I'm not ashamed of that at all. So, a scientist should have no problem demanding one standard of logic and evidence in the lab, and dropping that demand when they go to church on Sunday. View quote
PZ Myers
Few men, whatever their creed, would now seek their geology in the books of their religion, or, on the other hand, would fancy that the laboratory or the microscope could help them to penetrate the mysteries which hang over the nature and the destiny of the soul of man. ... We live in a small, bright oasis of knowledge, surrounded on all sides by a vast, unexplored region of impenetrable mystery. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury