If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
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.
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.
I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
[2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.
I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.
One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is. " Then I looked at my brother through the telescope of scorn, and I said, "How small my brother is. " Then I looked into the mirror of truth and I said, "How like me my brother is. "
First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
Jane: Focus is important. V: Only if you're a microscope.
You're always under the microscope, you don't know which mission you're going to get. It's a surprise.
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.
The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope.
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
