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Religion is not the most important thing.
Vera Rubin / Astronomer
Important
Important Things
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Worldwide, half of all brains are in women.
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Half
Brains
Worldwide
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I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
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Kind
Moral
Moral Code
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The real prize is finding something new out there.
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Prize
Something New
Finding
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I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.
Vera Rubin / Astronomer
Sleep
Stars
Prefer
Watch
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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.
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Data
Problem
Observational
Solved
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Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
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Fleeting
Numbers
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It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.
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I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.
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Gave Up
Giving Up
Teaching
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Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.
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Assumed
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Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.
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Silly
Anyone
Reasons
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Science
Engineering
Force
Preconceptions
Progress
Alter
Observations
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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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Code
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There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.
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Every Night
Stars
Life Night My Life
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We need senators who have studied physics and representatives who understand ecology.
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Ecology
Physics
Representatives
Senators
Studied
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The conclusion is inescapable that non-luminous matter exists beyond the optical galaxy.
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Conclusion
Galaxy
Matter
Beyond
Exists
Inescapable
Optical
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There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.
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Science
No Problem
Problem
Cannot
Woman
Solved
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Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
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Uplifting
Science
Demand
Most Inspiring
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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Different
Doe
Sex
Course
Question
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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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Study
Astronomer
Occurred
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We know very little about the universe. I personally don't believe it's uniform and the same everywhere. That's like saying the earth is flat.
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Flat
Uniform
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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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Astronomers
Study
Thinking
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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.
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Permission
Ingrained
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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.
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Children
People
Years
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I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.
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Ideally
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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, but they never really got the opportunity?
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Opportunity
Science
Science Women Great
Question
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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 the motion of the earth. I found it a remarkable thing.
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Constellations
Remarkable
Stars
Usual
Motion
Pointed
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So important is this dark matter to our understanding of the size, shape, and ultimate fate of the universe that the search for it will very likely dominate astronomy for the next few decades.
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Astronomy
Dark
Decades
Fate
Matter
Next
Size
Ultimate
Understanding
Universe
Dominate
Few
Likely
Search
Shape
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My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At about age 10, I started watching the stars just move through the night.
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Bedroom
Ten Years
Windows
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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 our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
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Knowledge
Galaxy
Ignorance
Matter
Ten
Factor
Number
Knowledge Good Ignorance
Grade
Ratio
Spiral
Third
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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 our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
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Journey
Knowledge
Dark
Ignorance
Light
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My father was an electrical engineer. He's presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical way of looking at things, and I enjoyed that very much. I think that was a very large influence.
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Electrical
Analytical
Engineer
Holding
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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 to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.
Vera Rubin / Astronomer
Bedroom
Every Night
Library
Life Age Learning
Initially
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