For I can end as I began. From our home on the Earth, we look out
into the distances and strive to imagine the sort of world into
which we are born. Today we have reached far out into space. Our
immediate neighbourhood we know rather intimately. But with
increasing distance our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly, until 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 supressed.
Edwin Hubble, The Law of Red-Shifts, 1953
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