Astronomy Quote by Edwin Powell Hubble Download Open image “I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.” — Edwin Powell Hubble ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astronomy Ifs Inspirational Rate Thirds
Certainly the history of astronomy shows that every time we thought we were special, we were wrong. — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“The astronomer's rule of thumb: if you didn't write it down, it didn't happen” — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Wen daylight turns to a darkened hue, D lovely stars hinting at u, ur heart beat tells u something true, That some 1 badly… — Butterfly_Kisses Copy Share Image
Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Twinking tears in a sea of black. Soft light in a world of darkness. Tiny wishes in a place of dreams. Do you see… — Nicole Gentile Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." ... quote has been credited to Les Brown.” — Sylviek Copy Share Image
