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 Copy Share Image
I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
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… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
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. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
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… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science,… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
