An American astronomer and the founder of extragalactic astronomy. He was fascinated by science and mysterious new worlds from an early age. Hubble had also devised a classification system for the various galaxies he observed, sorting them by shape, content, distance and brightness. He noticed redshifts in the emission of light from the galaxies. He observed that they were moving away from each other at a rate constant to the distance between them.
These observations contributed to formulating Hubble’s Law in 1929, helping astronomers determine the age of the universe, and proving that the universe is expanding all the time. (1889-1953)
– Edwin Hubble Quotes –
Observations always involve theory.
~ Edwin Hubble
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.
~ Edwin Hubble
Past time is finite, future time is infinite.
~ Edwin Hubble
The universe is unfolding as it should.
~ Edwin Hubble
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
~ Edwin Hubble
The great spirals… apparently lie outside our stellar system.
~ Edwin Hubble
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
~ Edwin Hubble
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
~ Edwin Hubble
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 Hubble
