"Past time is finite, future time is infinite." — Edwin Powell Hubble
"Past time is finite, future time is infinite."
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Edwin Powell Hubble
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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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More Finite Quotes
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running…
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
— Robert Browning
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless
— Justin Rosenstein
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The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the…
— Unknown Author
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Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits…
— Unknown Author
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It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is…
— Ted Danson
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that…
— Fred Hoyle
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We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation…
— Immanuel Kant
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We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false…
— Blaise Pascal
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