"We often frame our understanding of what the space telescope will do in terms of what we expect to find, and actually it would be terribly anticlimactic if in fact we find what we expect to find. ... The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined."
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John N. Bahcall, on the Hubble Space Telescope, quoted in his CalTech obituary (7 September 2005)
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