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Astronomy Quotes by Edwin Powell Hubble
- The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
- I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
- 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…
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