Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.

Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics.

I don't know why anyone would want to study the expansion of the universe.

What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We're planning to use the facilities we have to make improvements by another factor of 10... a strain sensitivity that is 10 times smaller. This means looking 10 times further out into the universe.

I don't pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I've always just been really interested in. I don't pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.