Edwin Powell Hubble Quotes About Astronomy

• The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  History, Horizon, Hubble Space Telescope

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

• Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Space, Ministry, Astronomy

• The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Lying, Velocity, Astronomy

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1920). “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...”

• The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Data, Space

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

• I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Astronomy, Rate, Thirds

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