Quotes About Observation

I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.

Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars.

I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes up and points his telescope up at Jupiter and finds out, hey, Jupiter has these moons.

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

The basic method to find asteroids hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. So asteroids in a telescope look just like stars with one exception: They move with time.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

The Kecks will allow us, like no other telescope in history, to view the evolving universe that gave us birth.

I'd like a telescope, but I probably wouldn't look at the stars that often. I'd definitely be looking into people's flats most of the time.

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope's mirror is capturing primeval light... galaxies that existed before our time.

A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.

The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.

A song like 'Telescope' was about a friend of mine. He doesn't know it's about him.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person.

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

It's interesting: I went 25 years without watching a single television show. I was one of those people, because I was so inside how a television show was made, if I would turn on somebody else's show, I would sit there and analyze it, like, 'Oh, so they had four hours in this location and had to get out and the number of set-ups, etc.'

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.