Quotes About The Hubble Space Telescope

#1. I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles."
~ Ithana Aaronson

Jeanne Birdsall

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted aurora near the poles of both Saturn and Jupiter. And on Earth, the aurora borealis and australis (the northern and southern lights) serve as intermittent reminders of how nice it is to have a protective atmosphere.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. 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

#6. I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

Markwayne Mullin

#7. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#8. I don't want The Cure to fizzle out doing 45-minute shows of greatest hits. That would be awful for our legacy.

Robert Smith

#9. The Navy is very old and very wise.

Rudyard Kipling

#10. For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border

Ruskin Bond

#11. Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals - and is intended to conceal - the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the peculiar institution.

Dinesh D'Souza

#12. Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

Duke Kahanamoku

#13. Knowing your whole world is about to change, how can you sleep?

Samuel Colbran

#14. The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#15. I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

Dee Snider

#16. Part of why I like watercolor is that mistakes are visible, and you can't really repair much. It has to look easy. When it comes out, it looks easy, but to get to that point takes a lot of doing.

Chris Raschka

#17. Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

Thomas L. Dumm

#19. I feel privileged and honored to have flown. It's been a tremendous ride, looking back on the legacy and accomplishments, like the Hubble telescope and the launching of the International Space Station in 1998.

Alan G. Poindexter

#20. I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

Margaret Thatcher