“The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contacts painful and revolting”
Marshall McLuhan
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”
Cynthia Heimel
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”
Victor Hugo
“By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.”
Yukio Mishima
“He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“[In an interview on CNN's] Late Edition, ... can examine it under a microscope and see sperm. And the key issue is whether there is sperm there.”
Barry Scheck
