Vera Rubin Quotes

#1. The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.

Hamadoun Toure

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

Vera Rubin

#3. 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.

Vera Rubin

#4. Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Vera Rubin

#5. It's the process, not the result.

Charles Schlueter

#6. I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.

Ann Leckie

#7. Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Gregg Easterbrook

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

Vera Rubin

#9. One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos.

Jan Brett

#10. 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.

Vera Rubin

#11. I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

Edward Hopper

#12. No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Vera Rubin

#13. I wonder if there have been other errors.

Ally Condie

#14. Gossipmongers = Toxic Hearts
Toxic Hearts = Bigot Souls

Angelica Hopes

#15. ...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

Greg Iles

#16. Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.

Henry Giroux

#17. 'There's a seagull eating our food,' he told me, and it was the most romantic thing I'd ever heard.

T.J. Klune

#18. You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

Judd Apatow

#19. We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

John D. Rockefeller

#20. Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

Walker Percy