Sandra Faber Quotes

Sandra Faber

Profession : Scientist

Birth : December 28, 1944

Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.

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One lesson astronomy tells us is that we're a tiny mote in a hostile void, and help is too far away.

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Antarctica is a paradise compared to Mars.

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You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the interstellar medium, like a chicken broth getting stronger with every reduction. Every time a supernova goes off and sends its heavy elements out into the interstellar medium, we cook up a stew that's better and better for solar systems and life.

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We've been given the gift of a billion years of cosmic time, and we should not screw it up. But at the rate we're using up our planet's natural resources and fouling our own nest means we're not going to last a billion years.

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I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.

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I was born in Boston, but I moved to Cleveland when I was three.

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I remember spending evenings looking at the sky with my dad, who was interested. He was a civil engineer and was interested in science as a kid. And he always encouraged me.

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I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.

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I graduated from high school in 1962.

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I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

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I was a tomboy through and through; I hated dresses and was personally miffed that I couldn't join the Little League team.

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I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.

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Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.

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The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.

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Very few astronomers will be mourned with the same degree of love and admiration as Vera Rubin.

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I have great respect for the special nature of Mauna Kea and profound regard for Hawaii's culture, environment, and people.

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Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy.

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The origin of galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of astronomy, and that's what I've been studying.

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There are kind of two kinds of awards you can get as a scientist. One is Nobel-like in character: it's for one big thing, for a big revolutionary discovery. And it's wonderfully well known, and of course every scientist would love to get a Nobel prize. And there's a few other similar awards. They're for individual blockbuster discoveries.

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