Astronomy Quote by Edwin Powell Hubble

“The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.” quote by Edwin Powell Hubble — Download Open image

“The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.”

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

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A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new…

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Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

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Observation always involves theory.

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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive…

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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 we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

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I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

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There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

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The universe is unfolding as it should.

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Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

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