Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for ... and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was a tall, elegant, athletic, man who at age 30 had an undergraduate degree ...

In short, Edwin Hubble is the man who wiped away the ancient universe and discovered a new universe that would shrink humanity's self-perception into being an insignificant speck in the cosmos.

Edwin Hubble is, in essence, the man who destroyed the old universe and found a new one that would make humanity seem like a tiny dot in the vast cosmos.