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Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

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Edwin Powell Hubble
Age: 63 †
Born: 1889
Born: November 20
Died: 1953
Died: September 28
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
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Missouri
Edwin Powell Hubble
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