5 Quotes & Sayings By Edwin Powell Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble was born in 1889, the son of an Episcopal minister. He was educated at Princeton University and Columbia University, where he received his medical degree. Hubble was a renowned astronomer who discovered the expansion of the universe to be accelerating. He spent his entire career at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California where he made many extraordinary astronomical discoveries.

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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. Edwin Powell Hubble
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary–the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation. Edwin Powell Hubble
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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. Edwin Powell Hubble
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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. Edwin Powell Hubble