History Quote by 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— Vera Rubin

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

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

— 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.

— Vera Rubin

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

— Vera Rubin

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

— 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…

— Vera Rubin

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

— 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,…

— Vera Rubin

So important is this dark matter to our understanding of the size, shape, and ultimate fate of the universe that the search for it…

— Vera Rubin