– Edwin Hubble (20 November 1889 – 28 September 1953), from “The Exploration of Space“. Harper’s Magazine 158: 732 (the May 1929 issue)
An astrophysicist who was, amongst other things, able to determine that there were other galaxies and that they are all receding from us.
He was famously named after the Hubble Space telescope, in the same way that JFK was named after the famous space centre in Florida and Charles de Gaulle after an airport near Paris.
Credit: Studio Portrait of Edwin Powell Hubble. Photographer: Johan Hagemeyer, Camera Portraits Carmel. Photograph signed by photographer, Source http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/129
This quote is one of those phrases that’s printed on museum gift shop refrigerator magnets and inspirational science class posters.
If you are looking for a deeper meaning, and maybe one that Hubble meant, try this article, by philosiblog, who says it “… demonstrates the two parts of Science …”.
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