{"quotes":[{"text":"When I saw how many people were objecting to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, I realized that there needed to be an open and honest discussion about the toxicity of the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit and the health and safety issues of astronomical observatories.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astronomy","construction","health","kea","mauna","osha","safety","telescope","toxic"],"id":1326,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the assumption of his Mother infinitely absurd, crumbled to chaos the gates and palaces of the New Jerusalem, and in their places gave to man a wilderness of worlds.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["absurd","ascension","bible","bible-vs-science","chaos","firmament","heaven","jerusalem","jesus","lord","mary","new-jerusalem","new-testament","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","telescope","the-bible","virgin-mary"],"id":69447,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","astrobiology","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","health","kea","legal","legally","lie","lies","mauna","mountain","observatory","osha","poster","right","rights","safe","safety","solar","solar-energy","solar-power","solar-pv","solar-system","solar-systems","telescope","usa","work","workers","workplace"],"id":104774,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is a dead planet, as they themselves are dead, so that the living Earth will never be visited by that forlorn ray of light, without a living source, without a living destination. Often on fine nights when the park of this establishment is vacant, I amuse myself with this marvelous instrument (telescope). I go upstairs, walk across the grass, sit on a bench in the Avenue of Oaks – and there, in my solitude, I enjoy the pleasure of weighing the rays of dead stars.","author":"Villiers de L'Isle-Adam","tags":["astronomy","light","stars","telescope"],"id":115563,"author_id":"Villiers+de+L%27Isle-Adam"},{"text":"The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","atop","biologically","build","construction","develop","die","environment","high","injured","kea","known","last","lifetime","long","managed","manned","mauna","meter","obtain","people","permit","scandal","sickness","telescope","term","thirty","tmt","toxic","very","workers"],"id":166978,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. ... This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine. I observed further with suitable refractors for the discovery of comets, and this is the purpose I had in mind in compiling the catalog.After me, the celebrated Herschel published a catalog of 2000 which he has observed. This unveiling the sky, made with instruments of great aperture, does not help in the perusal of the sky for faint comets. Thus my object is different from his, and I need only nebulae visible in a telescope of two feet [focal length].","author":"Charles Messier","tags":["astronomer","astronomy","catalog","catalog-of-stars","comet","discovery","frederick-william-herschel","herschel","nebula","purpose","science","sir-william-herschel","sky","space","taurus","telescope","william-herschel"],"id":174493,"author_id":"Charles+Messier"},{"text":"Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.","author":"Luther Burbank","tags":["electricity","evolution","gravity","legislation","microscope","politics","science","spectroscope","speed-of-light","telescope","truth"],"id":186842,"author_id":"Luther+Burbank"},{"text":"Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.","author":"Daniel Keidl","tags":["armageddon","matron","sun","telescope"],"id":234714,"author_id":"Daniel+Keidl"},{"text":"Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["astronomy","neil-degrasse-tyson","physics","telescope","universe"],"id":278065,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more powerful radio telescopes, was the recognition, in 1952, that the intense source in the constellation of Cygnus was a distant galaxy—1000 million light years away. This discovery showed that some galaxies were capable of producing radio emission about a million times more intense than that from our own Galaxy or the Andromeda nebula, and the mechanisms responsible were quite unknown. ... [T]he possibilities were so exciting even in 1952 that my colleagues and I set about the task of designing instruments capable of extending the observations to weaker and weaker sources, and of exploring their internal structure.","author":"Martin Ryle","tags":["andromeda","andromeda-galaxy","astronomy","galaxies","intensity","light-years","mechanism","milky-way","nobel-laureate","observation","possibility","power","radio-astronomy","radio-telescope","science","source","space","structure","telescope","universe"],"id":280372,"author_id":"Martin+Ryle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}