Telescope Aperture

Famous quotes containing the words telescope and/or aperture:

“The telescope at one end of his beat,
And at the other end the microscope....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders’ sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away ... is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)