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"12 Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 November 1889. Died: 28 September 1953 | Astronomer |

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.

Born World Find Physical aspect
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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Equipped Five sense Universe Adventure
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

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

Science Human activity Progressive Body
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The universe is unfolding as it should.
The universe Unfolding
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Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

Past time Future Infinite
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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Nature Vast symbolism Material Spiritual truth
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Observations always involve theory.

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

Wisdom Transmitted Readily accumulate Ages
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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 Ministry Go Without call
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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

Great spiral Radial velocities Motion
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I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Second Astronomy Mattered
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Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes & Sayings