Hub Quotes

It's only hubris if I fail.

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

For me personally, I don't go onto Twitter or Facebook, my hubby helps me out because sometimes I'm concerned that I'll see something that will upset me, and I don't have a way to work it out with that person.

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.