Best quotes by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on Science
Checkout quotes by Jocelyn Bell Burnell on Science
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‟ Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.
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‟ In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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‟ When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.
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‟ If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.
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‟ When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
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‟ When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
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‟ Science is a quest for understanding.
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‟ People are suspicious of science. They see it as being responsible for problems like the degradation of our climate. There is also a strand in society that says physics is terribly hard.
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‟ I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
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‟ Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell