"The eye appears to have been designed; no designer of telescopes could have done better."

"[The Hubble Space Telescope is] probably the most sophisticated scientific satellite ever built."

"Few astronomers could have anticipated that this event—the sudden birth of the Universe—would become a proven scienti…"

"The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at …"

"TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant obj…"

"Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclinati…"

"About ten months ago [1609] a report reached my ears that a certain Fleming [Hans Lippershey] had constructed a spygl…"

"I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so ma…"

"The largest, most complex, and most powerful observatory ever deployed in space."

"The four million lines of computer code needed to command and control it daily—one of the largest codes in the civili…"