Top 34 Quotes & Sayings by Vera Rubin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Vera Rubin.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Vera Florence Cooper Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves. Identifying the galaxy rotation problem, her work provided the first evidence for the existence of dark matter. These results were confirmed over subsequent decades.

American - Scientist | August 23, 1928 - December 25, 2016

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Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

Vera Rubin

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.

Vera Rubin

I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.

Vera Rubin

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Vera Rubin

The real prize is finding something new out there.

Vera Rubin

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

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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.

Vera Rubin

I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.

Vera Rubin

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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So important is this dark matter to our understanding of the size, shape, and ultimate fate of the universe that the search for it will very likely dominate astronomy for the next few decades.

Vera Rubin

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Vera Rubin

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.

Vera Rubin

I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

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We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

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In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.

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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.

Vera Rubin

Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.

Vera Rubin

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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There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.

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There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

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We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology.

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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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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'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

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The conclusion is inescapable that non-luminous matter exists beyond the optical galaxy.

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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.

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I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

Vera Rubin

Religion is not the most important thing.

Vera Rubin

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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It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

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

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I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Vera Rubin

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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