A biography for Vera Rubinhasn’t been written yet.
“Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.”
“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.”
“I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.”
“In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.”
“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.”
“The real prize is finding something new out there.”