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The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.
— Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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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
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My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.
— Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.
— Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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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
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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
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