Vera Rubin Quotes

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Very few women are creative. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

When I was a physics major in the late 1970s, my very few fellow female students and I had high hopes that women would soon stand equal with men in science. But progress has proved slower than many of us imagined.

It's so great to be able to inspire these young women today to get involved in male-dominated subjects.

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.

We say women have made great strides: in biology, in many areas of chemistry, in many places, women are now the majority of medical students. But when I began my career, that wasn't the case. There were very strong stereotypes in biology and medicine.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

Last year, I was very shocked when I went to a debate on Women's Day. They had a survey, and they were asking these girls how many women inventors we have, how many women scientists do we have. And you'd be shocked that hardly anyone knew that Ada Lovelace was there behind computer science, that Marie Curie still remains iconic with two Nobel prizes. So there's a lot of homework to do to actually make -- to remove all these gender biases at a very young age; instill that confidence in that girl; to tell her that she can do as well if not better than her brother.

There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.

I want to try to do something for women in physics worldwide.

Other things equal, we should give a chance to women. That's what I try to do.