Vera Rubin

"I'm not a theologian, and I must say honestly that Vatican astronomers' views are entirely in accord with ours. I'm not aware of any Church positions that contradict modern science. In my own life, my…"

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

"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 n…"

"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…"

"Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, 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 adventuro…"

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

"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."