Edwin Powell Hubble

Quotes

• “With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limit...”
• “We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther...”
• “Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generati...”
• “The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.”