Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

You do not have to imagine things; reality gives you all you need.

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

I think as resources become more dear, we really need to consider population.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .

You don't need people's opinion on a fact.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it with the real world... a race without end... What mattered more than the answers were the questions... For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future... I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

We are killing our host the planet Earth.... I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the 'AIDS of the Earth.' I make no apologies for that statement.... We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

Of course not,” said Hermione. “Everything we need is here on this paper.

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.

I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.