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Vera Rubin Quotes

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Vera Rubin (23 July 1928 – 25 December 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. Her magnum opus was the uncovering of the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

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Each one of you can change the world, for you are made of star stuff, and you are connected to the universe.

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

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

In Quest of the Universe (2007)

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

What questions will astronomers be asking of the universe 100 years from now? A thousand years from now?

I don’t know if we have dark matter or need a change in gravity or need something else; we know so little about our universe. It is a strange and mysterious universe. But that’s fun.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vera Rubin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.