"At the last dim horizon, we search among……" — Edwin Powell Hubble
"At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed."
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Edwin Powell Hubble
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20 Quotes by Edwin Powell Hubble
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Observations always involve theory.
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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.…
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to…
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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
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I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
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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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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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Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call,…
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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
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The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that…
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