Jocelyn Bell Burnell

1943– · British astrophysicist (born 1943)

Topics: learning, physics

• Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Science is a quest for understanding.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• If we assume we've arrived: we stop searching, we stop developing.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Scientists should never claim that something is absolutely true. You should never claim perfect, or total, or 100% because you never ever get there.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Science doesn't always go forwards. It's a bit like doing a Rubik's cube. You sometimes have to make more of a mess with a Rubik's cube before you can get it to go right.

  — Jocelyn Bell Burnell