Vera Rubin famous quotes

04-17-2025

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
-- Vera Rubin

#Uplifting #Aggressive #Imaginative
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.
-- Vera Rubin

#Thinking #Study #Astronomers
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
-- Vera Rubin

#Progress #Force #Observation
No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
-- Vera Rubin

#Data #Problem
Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
-- Vera Rubin

#Sex #Matter #Doe
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.
-- Vera Rubin

#Ignorance #Dark #Light
I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
-- Vera Rubin

#Moral #Kind #Moral Code
I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.
-- Vera Rubin

#Giving Up #Teaching #Gave Up
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 Rubin

#Children #Years #People
Religion is not the most important thing.
-- Vera Rubin

#Important #Important Things
It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.
-- Vera Rubin

#Close Friends

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