"The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system"
- Edwin Powell Hubble
About this Quote
This quote by Edwin Powell Hubble is describing the excellent spirals of galaxies that exist in the universe. Hubble was an American astronomer who is understood for his discovery of galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. He was the very first to acknowledge that these galaxies were different from our own which they were much even more away than formerly believed. This quote is referring to the reality that these galaxies, which are called the great spirals, are located outside of our own stellar system. This indicates that they are located in a different part of the universe, far away from our own galaxy. Hubble's discovery of these galaxies was a major development in astronomy and helped to even more our understanding of deep space. His quote is a pointer of the vastness of the universe and how much is still unknown.
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"
