I do suspect we are going to get signs of life elsewhere, but how well prepared are we for this? Have we thought how we will approach them? We need to start thinking about that. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn’t expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing – which is interesting but uncomfortable. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
People from different backgrounds approach a subject in different ways and ask different questions. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
If you’d got a very conservative Republican in power, they might not be happy about some of the scientific research going on, because it conflicts with their fundamental beliefs. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
Throughout my working life, I’ve been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man’s of a comparable age. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars – more knowledge about the space between the stars. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn’t too happy with that. Jocelyn Bell Burnell Read Quote
