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“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.”

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I knew there was a school where women could study astronomy. So... it never occurred to me that I couldn't be an astronomer.

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By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going…

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I had the usual friends who pointed out constellations of stars. But it really was watching the stars. It was getting some sense of…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science,…

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