Vera Rubin Quotes

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

Vera Rubin

• Science
• Best
• Force

I live and work with three basic assumptions, 1) There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman. 2) Worldwide, half of all brains are in women. 3) We all need permission to do science, but, for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

Vera Rubin

• Work
• Men
• Women

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

Vera Rubin

• Different
• Question
• Sex

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

Vera Rubin

• Science
• Uplifting

We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.

Vera Rubin

• World
• Future
• Universe

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Vera Rubin

• Problem
• Will
• Data

How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.

Vera Rubin

• Universe
• Dark
• Sky

There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.

Vera Rubin

• Great
• Community
• Universe

It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.

Vera Rubin

• Women