Edwin Hubble quotes

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science. (Edwin Hubble)
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. View quote
Edwin Hubble
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. View quote
Edwin Hubble
I chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered. View quote
Edwin Hubble
She deserved the Nobel Prize for her work. View quote
Edwin Hubble
Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. View quote
Edwin Hubble
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. View quote
Edwin Hubble
The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. View quote
Edwin Hubble
The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget about it. View quote
Edwin 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. View quote
Edwin Hubble