Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein's theory of relativity - so far, it's holding up well. They may even one day act as navigational beacons for spacecraft. I'll never tire of them; they really are the most extraordinary objects.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DayUniverseTestOne DayNeverUp

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Jerry Pournelle

InformationImportanceProportional

I've never wanted anything as much as I want to win the next Super Bowl.

Jerry Jones

WinSuper BowlWantNeverAnything

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

John Landis

GoodBluesRealShootDancersAfter

I started trading stocks, options and futures while I was at UCLA, using my earnings from working summers at the old IBM plant on Cottle Road. I never lost interest in how companies work. It's fundamental to who I am.

Michael Burry

WorkI AmRoadPlantLostNever

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Solon

LearningWisdomPeopleRichSheep

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

Robby Benson

TimeI AmPeopleGenerationGrow

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

Mike McCurry

FaithColleaguesHouseWhiteSharing

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'

Michelle Branch

FunI CanGoWantProveDeserve

I personally think the best ideas for TV shows - at least comedies - are very low-fi ideas. High concepts often sell pitches in movies and TV, but, especially in TV when you're talking about hopefully a 100 or 150 episode proposition, those concepts just burn off, and then you're stuck with nothing.

Michael Schur

BestIdeasThinkTalkingYouBurn

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

Janine di Giovanni

DoctorAfricaNeverOutWorkingSet

The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.

Derek Walcott

StrengthSeaTreesHeightsSpice

Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

Brad Meltzer

WomenManCreativeStrongPotential

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