"Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not……" — Edwin Powell Hubble

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the… - Edwin Powell Hubble

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

— Edwin Powell Hubble

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20 Quotes by Edwin Powell Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Observations always involve theory.
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes.…
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to…
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The…
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
The universe is unfolding as it should.
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call,…
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

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More Accumulate Quotes

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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. — Arthur Bloch
I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. — David Byrne
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. — Andrew Carnegie
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. — Noam Chomsky
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's… — Arianna Huffington
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away. — Wayne Dyer

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