Academy Quote by Heber Doust Curtis

It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In…

— Harlow Shapley

“Andromeda was discovered to be another island universe, another spiral galaxy almost identical to our own, and one of the more than 100 billion…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

— John Hartford

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

— Edwin Powell Hubble

“In 1997, the Hubble telescope took flight to give us a look through its powerful lens into places we had never known or seen…

— Tony Evans

“We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture…

— Stephen Hawking

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

— Martin Rees

“What science tells us is that we are but one among hundreds of millions of species that evolved over the course of three and…

— Michael Shermer

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

— Sandra Faber