Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Interpretation
Science is a journey of exploration and discovery using our senses.
This quote by Edwin Powell Hubble highlights the idea that human beings, with their unique sensory perceptions, engage in an ongoing adventure to understand the universe. Science is framed not merely as a discipline, but as an adventurous quest where each observation and discovery serves to enrich our understanding of the cosmos.
In practice
In a presentation on the importance of scientific research, you might say, 'As Hubble reminds us, equipped with our senses, we embark on an adventure called science.'
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be oppressed.
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
Observations always involve theory.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
[Marijuana] doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works... [I]t is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that could involve marijuana. We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just wonβt. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.
The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'
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