Edwin Hubble Quotes
Best 11 Other Quotes by Edwin Hubble
“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.”
“All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.”
“The universe is unfolding as it should.”
“There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.”
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