Powell Hubble Quotes & Sayings

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. — Edwin Powell Hubble

One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat then there is in pulling up weeds. — Michael Flynn

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. — Edwin Powell Hubble

The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space. — Edwin Powell Hubble

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth. — Edwin Powell Hubble

The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life. When you're on Twitter, you're not living, and if you're not living, you're not taking in stimuli with which you can create new material. — Rob Delaney

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Nothing really annoys me, I'm not that kind of person, I'm quite laid back about most things. — Mark Lawrenson

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, / He who travels fastest who travels alone... — Jeffery Deaver

Past time is finite, future time is infinite. — Edwin Powell Hubble

A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified. — Edwin Powell Hubble

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe. — 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, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. — Edwin Powell Hubble

The great spirals ... apparently lie outside our stellar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory. — Edwin Powell Hubble

The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble

When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment. — Adam Beach

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy. — Mengistu Haile Mariam

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. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Observations always involve theory. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hear my father's voice faintly, over the telephone, answering for me in a soft drawl. "He's my son." He reaches out his hand, pressing it against the glass, as if trying to touch me. He smiles, and I see a tear making its way down his cheek.
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I press my hand up against my father's and I'm suddenly close enough to the glass to see my reflection, blurred by the tears now filling my eyes. I wipe them away with my fist and take a good look at my father. — Carolee Dean

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. — Edwin Powell Hubble

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered. — Edwin Powell Hubble

Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead. — Laini Taylor