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.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. - Edwin Powell Hubble
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
- Edwin Powell Hubble
The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. - Edwin Powell Hubble
The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, w… - Edwin Powell Hubble
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, w…
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. - Edwin Powell Hubble
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Past time is finite, future time is infinite. - Edwin Powell Hubble
Past time is finite, future time is infinite.
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. - Edwin Powell Hubble
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages. - Edwin Powell Hubble
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
The universe is unfolding as it should. - Edwin Powell Hubble
The universe is unfolding as it should.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. - Edwin Powell Hubble
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
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