There is now a thirteenth commandment "Thou shalt not make predictions in x-ray astronomy, lest the Lord thy God reveal the folly of thy ways unto al… - Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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There is now a thirteenth commandment "Thou shalt not make predictions in x-ray astronomy, lest the Lord thy God reveal the folly of thy ways unto all."

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About Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born Susan Jocelyn Bell on 15 July 1943), known as Jocelyn Bell Burnell, is a British astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish. This discovery was included in the citation when Hewish shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Martin Ryle.

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Birth Name: Susan Jocelyn Bell Susan Bell
Alternative Names: Jocelyn Bell Jocelyn Bell Burnel Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Jocelyn Bell Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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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.

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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.

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