Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Interpretation
Science is a journey of exploration and discovery using our senses.
This quote by Edwin Powell Hubble highlights the idea that human beings, with their unique sensory perceptions, engage in an ongoing adventure to understand the universe. Science is framed not merely as a discipline, but as an adventurous quest where each observation and discovery serves to enrich our understanding of the cosmos.
In practice
In a presentation on the importance of scientific research, you might say, 'As Hubble reminds us, equipped with our senses, we embark on an adventure called science.'
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.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
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.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Observations always involve theory.
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do._x000D_ _x000D_ At age 60.
In my Nobel lecture, I suggested we had until the year 2000 to tame the population monster, and then food shortages would take us under. Now I believe we have a little longer.
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.
Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more interested in systems and females seem to be more interested in people and particularly people's emotions.
We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
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