Errors Quote by Edwin Powell Hubble

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,…

— Edwin Powell Hubble

“I watched the shadow of our plane hastening below us across hedges and fences, rows of poplars and canals … Nowhere, however, was a…

— W.G. Sebald

While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed…

— Ivan Chtcheglov

Nobody likes to see that which they've invested in disappear from the face of the earth before they've even died. This is not cool.…

— Twyla Tharp

As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries…

— S.T. Joshi

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only…

— Julian Jaynes

“It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed…

— Leila Aboulela

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and…

— Carl Sagan

“the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to…

— Elyne Mitchell

“I sat on a somewhat higher sand dune and watched the eastern sky. Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one instant, the…

— Haruki Murakami