Sandra Faber Quotes

I dreamt of being an astronomer; I had a series of 'How and Why' books on the planets and the stars. At that stage, there were only 14 galaxies; now there are multiverses, dark matter, the nano-microscopic world of the interior of atomic structure.

The universe is a great mystery.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

I've been working in cosmology since 1964.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

We know very little about the universe. I personally don't believe it's uniform and the same everywhere. That's like saying the earth is flat.

The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.

I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights from inwards to outwards, and I started becoming interested in the makeup of the universe, and I started reading about astronomy, planets, and galaxies.

If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.

Hubble has really opened our eyes to what the universe is made of, its structure, and has helped us learn how little we know about the universe.