Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

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.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceCultureWorldEngineering

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Jet Li

PastMoviesNeverStudyingYears

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

LifeAttitudePeopleSomeoneYou

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Lou Holtz

GodGreatMeAthleteNeverUsed

As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.

Doug Baldwin

PowerControlTryEverything

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

Chet Faker

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People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.

Christophe de Margerie

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I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Chris Patten

PoliticsI AmIntellectualAlwaysAm

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

BrainyRememberForgetUnderstand

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

Noam Chomsky

WorldRestClassMoreMilitaryJust

Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly.

Richard Engel

EgyptPresidentMattersSystemWho

Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

GenerationWillPresidentRightTurn

If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.

Janet Evanovich

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