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Edwin Powell Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.

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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.

Trying, World, Born, Sort

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Wisdom, Science, Age, Ages, Readily

Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

Needs, Exhausted, Resources, Pass, Realms

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.

Errors, Horizon, Lasts, Older, History, Dim

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

Astronomy, Mattered, Rate, Thirds

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

History, Horizon, Hubble Space Telescope, Astronomy, Receding

Observation always involves theory.

Theory, Observation, Involves

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.

Adventure, Vision, Five Senses, Five, Universe

Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Astronomy, Call, Like, Ministry, Space

The great spirals. . . apparently lie outside our stellar system.

Lying, Hubble Space Telescope, Spirals, Lie, Apparently

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.

Science, Data, Inquiring, Consequences, Inevitably, Scientist

The universe is unfolding as it should.

Should, Unfolding, Universe

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

Among, Errors, Measure, Scarcely, Shadow, Telescopes

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

Knowledge, Science, Generations, Positive, Progressive