Edwin Hubble Quotes

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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

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No theory is sacred. When a theory fails to meet the test of verified predictions, it is modified to include the larger field, or, vary rarely, it may be abandoned completely.

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The laws of science are the permanent contribution to knowledge — the individual pieces which are fitted together attempt to form a picture of the physical universe in action.

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The term nebulae offers the values of tradition... the term galaxies, the glamour of romance.

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Astronomy is like ministry. You need a calling.

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Scientists in general are not very articulate; they work in comparative seclusion and they do not cultivate the art of persuasion.

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Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

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There is a unity in science, connecting all its various fields. Men attempt to understand the universe, and they will follow clues which excite their curiosity wherever the clues may lead.

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The exploration of space is an achievement of great telescopes.

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Astronomy is something like the ministry... No one should go into it without a "call."

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We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching out into space, further and ever further, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescope, we arrive at the frontiers of the known universe.

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

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The scientist, in his purely scientific moods, seeks to understand the world — not to reform it, not to control it, but merely to understand it.

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The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

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Science acquires knowledge but has no interest in its practical applications. The applications are the work of engineers.

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Knowledge stirs the imagination, drives away the nightmares of superstition.

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is — at least in its physical aspects.

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The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget about it.

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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

Edwin Hubble
Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

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