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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way.
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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive.
The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)
She deserved the Nobel Prize for her work.
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.
The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)
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.
"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 Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae (1996)
Red-shifts are produced either in the nebulae, where the light originates, or in the intervening space through which the light travels. If the source is in the nebulae, then red-shifts are probably velocity-shifts and the nebulae are receding. If the source lies in the intervening space, the explanation of red-shifts is unknown, but the nebulae are sensibly stationary.
I chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.
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