Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodScienceLightExperienceData

I don't buy comics anymore, for the most part. I eat my lunch off of them.

Jim Lee

LunchEatBuyOffMostComics

There's a lot going on in the world that's very disturbing: rewriting the Holocaust; pseudo-historians rewriting history itself. And we're dealing with a terrorist mentality that involves whole nations.

Joel Grey

HistoryWorldHolocaustGoingWhole

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Andrew O'Hagan

RealityTake For GrantedTakeNotion

I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

GoodTimeHaving A Good TimeParty

A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.

Steve Albini

GoodCreativeThinkMusiciansResult

Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it's the Olympics. I'm blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.

Simone Biles

WorkOpportunityBlessedThinkYear

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

Trisha Goddard

FamilyWomanWorldAdviceYouGo

I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.

Tony Rock

TimePeopleBlackFeelWhiteDown

I always try to do a bit more than I am asked.

Roberto Firmino

I AmTryMoreAlwaysThanAm

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Rusty Schweickart

EarthAliveMeanEventsExtinction

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

Mike Krzyzewski

GreatTimeWifeHabitThinkEnvy

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Louise Mensch

WritingYouSeriousBreakLawsOnce

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