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.
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.
The universe is unfolding as it should. - Edwin Powell Hubble
The universe is unfolding as it should.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. - Edwin Powell Hubble
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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