Activity Quote by Edwin Powell Hubble Download Open image “Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.” — Edwin Powell Hubble ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Human activity Humans Progressive Science
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
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. — Albert Einstein 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
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — 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
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
