Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes

• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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• Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Time, Science, Past

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1937). “The Observational Approach to Cosmology”

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• All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Spiritual, Nature, Symbolism

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• We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Trying, World, Born

  "Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae" by Gale E. Christianson, (p. 1830, 1996.

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• The universe is unfolding as it should.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Should, Unfolding, Universe

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• 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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  Adventure, Vision, Five Senses

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

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  Wisdom, Science, Age

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• The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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  History, Horizon, Hubble Space Telescope

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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  Knowledge, Science, Generations

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

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  Space, Ministry, Astronomy

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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. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

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  Distance, Knowledge, Science

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• Observation always involves theory.

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  Theory, Observation

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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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  Lying, Velocity, Astronomy

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1920). “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...”

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• I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

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  Astronomy, Rate, Thirds

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• At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.

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  Errors, Horizon, Lasts

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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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  Needs, Exhausted, Resources

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

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  Science, Data, Inquiring

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• Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

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  Progressive, Humans, Human Activity

  "The Realm of the Nebulae". Book by Edwin Powell Hubble, 1936.

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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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  Errors, Shadow, Telescopes

  Quoted in Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (1991).

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

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  Lying, Hubble Space Telescope, Spirals

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• Observations always involve theory.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Science, Environmental, Theory

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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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 numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Data, Space

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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