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Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances.Hubble provided evidence that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the Earth, a property now known as "Hubble's law", despite the fact that it had been both proposed and demonstrated observationally two years earlier by Georges Lemaître. The Hubble–Lemaître law implies that the universe is expanding. A decade before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided the first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was strongly red-shifted, indicative of high recession velocities.Hubble's name is most widely recognized for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was named in his honor, with a model prominently displayed in his hometown of Marshfield, Missouri. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. November 1889 – 28. September 1953
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Famous Edwin Hubble Quotes

“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.”

Edwin Hubble

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

“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.”

Edwin Hubble

The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)

“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.”

Edwin Hubble

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.”

Edwin Hubble

Often said by Hubble about Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

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

Edwin Hubble

[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.”

Edwin Hubble

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]
Attributed

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

Edwin Hubble

The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)

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