Vera Rubin quotes
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“Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.”
-- Vera RubinSource : "Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters". Book by Vera Rubin, 1997.
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“We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.”
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“Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.”
-- Vera RubinSource : "In Quest of the Universe". Book by Karl F. Kuhn, 2007.
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“No observational problem will not be solved by more data.”
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“Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.”
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“In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.”
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“I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.”
-- Vera RubinSource : Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org
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“I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.”
-- Vera RubinSource : Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org
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“Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.”
-- Vera RubinSource : Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org
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“Religion is not the most important thing.”
-- Vera RubinSource : Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org
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“It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.”
-- Vera RubinSource : Source: www.historicchevychasedc.org
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