“Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name. If astronomers are still using my data years from now, that’s my greatest compliment,” astronomer Vera Rubin told […]

We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in mere continuation of economic progress, in amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by Dow Jones Average, nor […]

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without […]

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, “So? Did you learn anything today?” But not […]