Telescope/history

Famous quotes containing the words telescope and/or history:

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

    Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
    Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)