American - Scientist | August 23, 1928 - December 25, 2016
There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.
Vera Rubin
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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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We know very little about the universe. I personally don't believe it's uniform and the same everywhere. That's like saying the earth is flat.
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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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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
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My father was an electrical engineer. He's presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical way of looking at things, and I enjoyed that very much. I think that was a very large influence.
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My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At about age 10, I started watching the stars just move through the night.
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By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.
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I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of the motion of the earth. I found it a remarkable thing.
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Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.
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The real prize is finding something new out there.
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Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.
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