List of Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes

Observations Always Involve Theory.

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.

The Great Spirals... Apparently Lie Outside Our Stellar System.

There We Measure Shadows, And We Search Among Ghostly Errors Of Measurement For Landmarks That Are Scarcely More Substantial.

Science Is The One Human Activity That Is Totally Progressive.

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.

Observation Always Involves Theory.

Not Until The Empirical Resources Are Exhausted, Need We Pass On To The Dreamy Realms Of Speculation.

I Knew That Even If I Were Second Or Third Rate, It Was Astronomy That Mattered.

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.

The Great Spirals, With Their Enormous Radial Velocities And Insensible Proper Motions, Apparently Lie Outside Our Solar System.

Wisdom Cannot Be Directly Transmitted, And Does Not Readily Accumulate Through The Ages.