American - Scientist | December 28, 1944 -
I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.
Sandra Faber
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I was a tomboy through and through; I hated dresses and was personally miffed that I couldn't join the Little League team.
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I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.
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Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.
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Very few astronomers will be mourned with the same degree of love and admiration as Vera Rubin.
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I have great respect for the special nature of Mauna Kea and profound regard for Hawaii's culture, environment, and people.
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The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.
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We've been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we're using up our planet's natural resources and fouling our own nest means we're not going to last a billion years.
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I take comfort in the fact that it is a beautiful universe, and we belong here and that we fit. This is our home.
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Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.
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Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
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Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.
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