Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

quote by Clyde Tombaugh
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For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

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My Telescope

my hearts beating
noticably without warning
racing this tune
writing a poem

stuck in the underworld
forever starless night
light abandoned me
then I saw the stars in your eyes
you pulled me out
like a lifeguard
giving me back breath
awakening my soul

Now I see
A myriad of stars
I look up
I see you
Flashing and blinking
Your shooting

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poem by Cokbod Lodwogo
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

quote by Alan Watts
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

quote by Edsger Dijkstra
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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.

quote by Claude Nicollier
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I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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You are like the moon II

You are like the moon
My eyes are like telescope
To see your beauty

poem by Asif Andalib
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Progress Report

My need has frayed with time; you said it would.
It has; I can walk again across the flood
Of gold sil popples on the straw-gold hills
Under a deep Californian sky that expels
All truant clouds; watch squads of cattle graze
By the radio-telescope; blue-battered jays
Flash raucous squaking by my swivelling head
While squirrels sine-wave past over the dead
Oak-leaves, and not miss you_although I may
Admit that near the telescope yesterday
By a small bushcovered gully I blundered on
Five golden fox-cubs playing in the sun
And wished you had been there to see them play;
But that I only mention by the way.

poem by Vikram Seth
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An eye peeps far off
and telescope watch blue sun
in very dark place.

haiku by Gert Strydom
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Big space telescope
tuned fine on solar system
looks for small angels.

haiku by Gert Strydom
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Seen

Seen
through a telescope:
ten cents worth of fog.

Translated by Robert Hass

poem by Kobayashi Issa
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

quote by Claude Nicollier
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

quote by Fred Allen
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
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I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

quote by Clyde Tombaugh
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