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No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Vera Rubin

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Vera Rubin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 23
Died: 2016
Died: December 25
Astronomer
Physicist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Vera Cooper Rubin
Vera C. Rubin
Vera Cooper
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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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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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I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.
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Religion is not the most important thing.
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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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I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.
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