Frases de Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS , conhecida como Jocelyn Bell Burnell, é uma astrofísica britânica. Como estudante de pós-graduação descobriu os primeiros pulsares quando estudava sob a orientação de Antony Hewish. A descoberta rendeu a Hewish o Nobel de Física de 1974, compartilhado com Martin Ryle, tendo ela sido excluída, apesar de ter feito a observação. Bell Burnell foi presidente da Royal Astronomical Society entre 2002 e 2004, presidente do Institute of Physics entre 2008 e 2010, e presidente interina no começo de 2011.



Recebeu o Fundamental Physics Prize de 2018 na Categoria Especial. Destinou todo o prêmio de 3 milhões de dólares para auxiliar mulheres, minorias étnicas e estudantes refugiados a tornar-se pesquisadores em física.

✵ 15. Julho 1943
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell: Frases em inglês

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

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: 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. You build up this picture of what there is and you believe it to be true and you work with this picture and you refine it but sometimes you have to abandon the picture. Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.

“I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn't a creed, there isn't a dogma.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn't a creed, there isn't a dogma. There's an understanding but nothing as formal as a dogma or creed and this idea that you develop your own understanding also means that you keep redeveloping your understanding as you get more experience, and it seems to me that's very like what goes on in "the scientific method." You have a model, of a star, its an understanding, and you develop that model in the light of experiments and observations, and so in both you're expected to evolve your thinking. Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.

“I feel we are in that kind of phase.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: I have this sense that we need to picture cosmology, the evolution of the universe in a whole new way. I'm probably not one that can achieve this new thinking but somebody will and I feel at the moment we're kind of waiting for it to happen. A bit like a pregnant pause. A bit like what happens when there's a snowfall, first snowfall of the year, when everything goes quiet and kind of waits. I feel we are in that kind of phase.

“You can actually do extremely well out of not getting a Nobel prize,”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: You can actually do extremely well out of not getting a Nobel prize, and I have had so many prizes, and so many honours, and so many awards, that actually, I think I've had far more fun than if I'd got a Nobel Prize - which is a bit flash in the pan: You get it, you have a fun week, and it's all over, and nobody gives you anything else after that, cos they feel they can't match it.

“One of the things women bring to a research project, or indeed any project, is they come from a different place, they've got a different background.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: One of the things women bring to a research project, or indeed any project, is they come from a different place, they've got a different background. Science has been named, developed, interpreted by white males for decades and women view the conventional wisdom from a slightly different angle — and that sometimes means they can clearly point to flaws in the logic, gaps in the argument, they can give a different perspective of what science is.

“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.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: 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. You build up this picture of what there is and you believe it to be true and you work with this picture and you refine it but sometimes you have to abandon the picture. Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong.

“Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: I find that quakerism and research science fit together very, very well. In quakerism you're expected to develop your own understanding of god from your experience in the world. There isn't a creed, there isn't a dogma. There's an understanding but nothing as formal as a dogma or creed and this idea that you develop your own understanding also means that you keep redeveloping your understanding as you get more experience, and it seems to me that's very like what goes on in "the scientific method." You have a model, of a star, its an understanding, and you develop that model in the light of experiments and observations, and so in both you're expected to evolve your thinking. Nothing is static, nothing is final, everything is held provisionally.

“Science is a quest for understanding.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: Science is a quest for understanding. 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 believe, or we are in danger of each believing, that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls. I think a search for understanding is much more serviceable to humankind, and is a sufficiently ambitious goal of itself.

“I have this sense that we need to picture cosmology, the evolution of the universe in a whole new way.”

Beautiful Minds (2010)
Contexto: I have this sense that we need to picture cosmology, the evolution of the universe in a whole new way. I'm probably not one that can achieve this new thinking but somebody will and I feel at the moment we're kind of waiting for it to happen. A bit like a pregnant pause. A bit like what happens when there's a snowfall, first snowfall of the year, when everything goes quiet and kind of waits. I feel we are in that kind of phase.

“The girls got sent to the domestic science room and the boys to the science lab. ... I protested — unsuccessfully.”

Reflections on women in science – diversity and discomfort: Jocelyn Bell Burnell at TEDxStormont, 4 April 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7amRdr30Y,

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