Frasi di Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble è stato un astronomo e astrofisico statunitense.

✵ 20. Novembre 1889 – 28. Settembre 1953
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“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.”

Quoted in Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae (1996) by Gale E. Christianson, p. 183.

“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.”

Hubble's reply when asked about his beliefs from a friend, as quoted in Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae (1996) by Gale E. Christianson, p. 183.

“She deserved the Nobel Prize for her work.”

Often said by Hubble about Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

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

[Hubble, Edwin, 1929, May, The Exploration of Space, Harper's Magazine, 158, 732]

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

as quoted by [N. Y. Mayall, Biographical memoir. Volume 41, Memoirs of the National Academy of sciences, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences, 1970, 179]
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