Compass Quote by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The Sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. There have been a quarter of a million reversals since our predecessor, Homo Habilis, emerged, and…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Science is a quest for understanding.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

My father was an architect.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I've enjoyed being a single person, particularly because I'm travelling a lot. It would be hard to maintain a relationship - so I've really…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Some of the hydrogen in your body comes from the Big Bang, and when you see a kid walking down the street with a…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Although we don't know what is outside our universe, astronomers still wonder. Several pictures of what there might be have been dreamed up. An…

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell