As quoted in NPR obituary http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/26/507022497/vera-rubin-who-confirmed-existence-of-dark-matter-dies-at-88
Famous Vera Rubin Quotes
As quoted in Pontifical Science Academy http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/STELLAR.TXT
“Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.”
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (1997), p. 219
“It is well known that I am available twenty-four hours a day to women astronomers.”
As quoted in Jewish Women's Archive https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rubin-vera-cooper
As quoted in [Astronomer Vera Rubin—The Doyenne of Dark Matter, Discover Magazine, http://discovermagazine.com/2002/jun/breakdialogue] (1 June 2002)
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (1997), preface
“Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.”
As quoted in In Quest of the Universe (2007) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0763743879, by Theo Koupelis and Karl F. Kuhn, p. 583
As quoted in Pontifical Science Academy http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/STELLAR.TXT