Edwin Hubble
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Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the Milky Way. This became known as Hubble's law, and would help establish that the known universe is expanding.
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- Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
- Hubble, Edwin (May 1929). "The Exploration of Space". Harper's Magazine 158: 732.
- Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
- The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)
- 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.
- The Realm of the Nebulae (1936)
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- 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 (1970). Biographical memoir. Volume 41, Memoirs of the National Academy of sciences, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.). National Academy of Sciences. p. 179.
