Quotes from Edwin Powell Hubble

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

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.

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

Observations always involve theory.