Hubble Space Telescope Quotes:

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

- Michael J. Massimino

source: "NASA Astronaut Discusses Gravity and the Dangers of Spacewalking". Interview with Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

topic: Stars, Swimming, Night, Swimming Pool, Hubble

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Bad Ass, Ideas, Space, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope

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

- Edwin Powell Hubble

source: Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

topic: Motivational, Travel, Adventure, Space Science, Space Travel

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

- Michael Shermer

topic: Glasses, Light, Space, Stained Glass Windows, Hubble

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

source: Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

topic: Horizon, Astronomy, Cosmology, Hubble Space Telescope

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

- Tom Hanks

topic: Inspiring, Physics, Combination, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

- Josh Billings

source: Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

topic: Relationship, Jealousy, Hate, Jealous And Envy, Jealousy And Envy

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Life, Success, Nonsensical, Creative People

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

- Story Musgrave

source: "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

topic: Letting Go, Long, Telescopes, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

- Claude Nicollier

topic: Space, Telescopes, Next, Infrared, Hubble

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Cells, Imagination, Brain, Wakes You, Dark Fantasy

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

topic: Lying, Spirals, Stellar, Hubble Space Telescope

As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.

- Floyd E. Bloom

topic: Adventure, Space, Brain, Spirit Of Adventure, Hubble

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.

- Jason Silva

source: "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

topic: Hubble, Scaffolding, Hubble Space Telescope

...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.

- Mark Bowden

topic: Stars, Thinking, Space, Pseudoscience, Galaxy

With the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope we have seen that the House of God is the House of Chaos!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Eye, Space, House, Hubble, House Of God