Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes
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.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
