Top 37 Quotes About Edwin Hubble
#1. Edwin Hubble, who continues to give me great faith in humanity, because he started out as a lawyer and then became an astronomer.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#2. 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
#3. But in 1929, Edwin Hubble made the landmark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from us. In other words, the universe is expanding.
Stephen Hawking
#4. 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
#5. It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#7. In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
Charles Lyell
#8. Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#10. There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#12. 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
#13. I feel alive and heavy with emotion, heavy like a tide that threatens to pull you under, but you somehow know it won't because your heart is buoyant enough to keep you afloat no matter what.
Kim Holden
#14. Death is a theater, full of everyone you've ever met, watching a real-time replay of your life, with your every thought narrated out loud.
Fran Krause
#15. The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#16. Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
Tom Hodgkinson
#17. I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#18. I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.
John Steinbeck
#19. 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
#20. Every city has its own customs, and Tabat is no different. They grow from and are shaped by the circumstances around them, the history and the geography and what is plentiful or scarce, which exert a much greater influence than any individual ever will, even the Duke.
Cat Rambo
#21. It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.
Jean De La Bruyere
#23. It was with extreme difficulty that Nipper, the black-eyed, who looked on steadfastly, contained herself at this crisis, and, until the subsequent departure of Mrs. Chick. But the nursery being at length free of visitors, she made herself some recompense for her late restraint.
Charles Dickens
#24. I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.
Stephanie Sigman
#25. Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#26. Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones.
Ben Hogan
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Life is very short ... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.
William Merritt Chase
#30. You'll notice that it is the haters of humanity who are always trying to reform it. They want to feel superior to the general run of mankind.
Taylor Caldwell
#31. All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#32. I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you
Julia Hoban
#33. Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.
Taylor Nadeau
#34. Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you're spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.
Shannon L. Alder
#36. Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#37. 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
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