Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

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.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 15, 1943

Topics

ScienceRespectTimeMenGenderOut

I don't worry. It's just not in my nature, really.

Jimmy Wales

NatureWorryJustReally

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless.

Andrew Zimmern

GoodFoodThinkBadFindUseless

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

Matthew McConaughey

Getting OlderWaitForwardStarting

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

Alphonsus Liguori

LoveGodPastMeYouLoving

In her previous novels, Maggie O'Farrell has often measured the distance between intimates and the unexpected intimacy of distance - geographic, temporal, cultural. In 'The Hand That First Held Mine' and 'The Distance Between Us,' characters separated by many miles or many years turn out to be joined in ways they never anticipated.

Stacey D'Erasmo

UnexpectedDistanceHandNeverFirst

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced.

Sting

PerspectiveI AmLostNeverPretty

If you're the handsome white guy, you tend to get cast as guys who are meant to be convincing in their jobs. What I've been fortunate enough to do, whether it's playing a certified idiot on '30 Rock' or a weirdo in 'Bridesmaids,' is play against that in a lot of ways.

Jon Hamm

HandsomeEnoughIdiotYouPlayRock

If you don't have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won't like it.

Donald McCaig

WorkTimeBorderYouTrainYoung

Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

SoulWorldPlaceSometimesReal

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

Christie Hefner

TimeParentsOldYearsActually

I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.

Ashley Tisdale

DatingAdviceFriendsNiceExpert

I was always telling girls who said that they wanted to be the 'next' Kate Moss or the 'next' Gisele that it wasn't possible, because the 'next' girl wasn't going to look like anybody else; she would be somebody unique. If you look at all the great models... they all have an individual look.

Twiggy

GirlGreatYouUniqueLookPossible

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