Hubble Quotes

• Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Ideas, Space

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• We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.

  Jason Silva

  Mean, Space, Vision

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

  Tom Hanks

  Inspiring, Hubble Space Telescope, Physics

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• Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

  Story Musgrave

  Science, People, Giving

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.

  Floyd E. Bloom

  Adventure, Space, Brain

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• With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Space, House

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• If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

  Michael Shermer

  Humility, Space, Faces

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• ...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.

  Mark Bowden

  Stars, Thinking, Space

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• When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

  Vanna Bonta

  Adventure, Shopping, Giving

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

  Michael Shermer

  Glasses, Light, Space

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• The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

  Michael J. Massimino

  Stars, Swimming, Night

  "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

  Story Musgrave

  Letting Go, Long, Telescopes

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

  David Willetts

  Telescopes, Next, Inquiry

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Distance, Different

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.38, Random House

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• Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

  Claude Nicollier

  Heart, Privilege, My Heart

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• That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

  Duane G. Carey

  Forever, One Day, Together

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• With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

  Stephen Lang

  Telescopes, Myopic, Stories

  "'Terra Nova is the Hubble Telescope of television,' says Terra Nova star who means that in a good way" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 09, 2012.

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• The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis.

  Robert Jastrow

  Discovery, Law, Support

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• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Fighting, Years, United States

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• The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

  Claude Nicollier

  Space, Generations, Earth

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