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

— Vera Rubin In Quest of the Universe (2007)

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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.

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.

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