Timeline of Telescopes, Observatories, and Observing Technology

Famous quotes containing the words observing and/or technology:

“Neither look at nor listen to what is improper; do not speak or act without observing propriety.”
—Chinese proverb.

Confucian Analects.

“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)