Famous quotes containing the words hooker and/or telescope:
“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
—Richard Hooker (1554–1600)
“The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)