Best 9 quotes of Vera Rubin on MyQuotes

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

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.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

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 others are still very close.

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.