Edwin Hubble

“I chucked the law for astronomy, and I knew that even if I were second-rate or third-rate, it was astronomy that mattered.”

“She deserved the Nobel Prize for her work.”

“"We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is — at least in its physical aspects."”

“The whole thing is so much bigger than I am, and I can't understand it, so I just trust myself to it; and forget about it.”

“...there must be no favored location in the universe, no center, no boundary; all must see the universe alike. And, in order to ensure this situation, the cosmologist postulates spatial isotropy and spatial homogeneity.”

“The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”

“Eventually, we reach the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows and search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.”

“Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive.”

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