microscope

dad joke

 makes the world larger while the telescope makes it smaller.

The telescope makes the world smaller... it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

is a device that showed us how great we are and telescopes showed us how tiny we are.

is, like the telescope: amazing --- where the telescope ends, it begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?