"When she told her high school physics teacher that she got accepted to Vassar, he replied, 'You should do okay as long as you stay away from science.' She would later recall, 'It takes an enormous amount of self-esteem to listen to things like that and not be demolished.'"
~from Michio Kaku's parallel worlds, on astronomer Vera Rubin, who worked to show the existence of dark matter in the universe
