Named After Edwin Hubble
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble (film), documentary about the telescope
- Hubble's law, a statement in physical cosmology
- Hubble sequence, a classification of galaxy types
- 2069 Hubble, a main belt asteroid
- Hubble (crater), a crater on the Moon
- Edwin Hubble House, National historic landmark in San Marino, California
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Famous quotes containing the words named after, named and/or edwin:
“Late in the afternoon, we rode through Brewster, so named after Elder Brewster, for fear he would be forgotten else. Who has not heard of Elder Brewster? Who knows who he was?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“1946: I go to graduate school at Tulane in order to get distance from a “possessive” mother. I see a lot of a red-haired girl named Maude-Ellen. My mother asks one day: “Does Maude-Ellen have warts? Every girl I’ve known named Maude-Ellen has had warts.” Right: Maude-Ellen had warts.”
—Bill Bouke (20th century)
“Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”
—C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson)