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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.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell Beautiful Minds (2010)

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

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

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

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

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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.

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