Sandra Faber

We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.

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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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You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the interstellar medium, like a chicken broth getting stronger with every reduction. Every time a supernova goes off and sends its heavy elements out into the interstellar medium, we cook up a stew that's better and better for solar systems and life.

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Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

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I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.

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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.

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One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

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Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.

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Quotes by Sandra Faber