"Equipped with our five senses - along with……" — Edwin Powell Hubble
"Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science."
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20 Quotes by Edwin Powell Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The…
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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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