Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes

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• Observations always involve theory.
• 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…
• The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
• Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
• All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
• I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
• Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
• At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge…
• There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
• The universe is unfolding as it should.
• Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even…
• The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
• 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…
• A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting…
• The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
• Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
• Past time is finite, future time is infinite.
• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
• Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to…
• We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the…

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