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.
Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
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