Quotes by Edwin Powell Hubble - Page 1

Observation always involves theory.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Observation
Theory
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Observations always involve theory.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Environmental
Science
Theory
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The universe is unfolding as it should.
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Should
Unfolding
Universe
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Past time is finite, future time is infinite.
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Science
Time
Past
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
History
Astronomy
Horizon
Hubble Space Telescope
Horizons
Receding
The History Of
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Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Human Activity
Humans
Progressive
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The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Hubble Space Telescope
Lying
Spirals
Stellar
Apparently
Lie
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I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Astronomy
Rate
Thirds
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Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
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Wisdom
Age
Science
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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Nature
Facts
Spiritual
Symbolism
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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Motivational
Science
Travel
Adventure
Five
Senses
Universe
Science Man Universe
Man
Around
Calls
Equipped
Him
His
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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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Exhausted
Needs
Resources
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There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Errors
Shadow
Telescopes
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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Astronomy
Lying
Velocity
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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 / Astronomer
Born
Trying
World
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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.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Knowledge
Science
Generations
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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.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Space
Astronomy
Ministry
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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 / Astronomer
Space
Data
Distance
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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.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Errors
Horizon
Lasts
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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.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Science
Data
Inquiring
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We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Numbers
Reaching
Universe
Arrive
Constantly
Farther
Frontier
Increasing
Smaller
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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.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Adventure
Five Senses
Vision
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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.
Edwin Powell Hubble / Astronomer
Knowledge
Science
Distance
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