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. — 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
