Vera Rubin Quotes

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.

I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

I am not afraid of star names.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

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.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble with the ice-blue weight of them.

I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

I live out here in Malibu, where I can see the stars. So I want to get a really nice telescope so I can look at the stars a little bit more.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

I lost the ball in the moon.