"Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need……" — Edwin Powell Hubble
"Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation."
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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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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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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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More Dreamy Quotes
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I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian…
— Sandra Bullock
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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.…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.
— Annie Besant
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept…
— David Quammen
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When you're home or you're working, your mind just isn't allowed to just roll on like it does when you're…
— Unknown Author
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Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become…
— Michael Gambon
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Everything is so dreamy when you are young. After you grow up it kind of becomes -- just real.
— Elvis Presley
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There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of…
— Joan Blondell
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost…
— Charles Baudelaire
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If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy,…
— Oskar Schlemmer
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I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus,
— Kate Moss
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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was…
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