Vera Rubin

Scientist

1928-08-23

Quotes by Vera Rubin

• 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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• 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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• The real prize is finding something new out there.

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

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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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• Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.

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