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  • Rules are for people who aren't willing to invent their own
    Chuck Yeager, first man to break the sound barrier.
  • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
    Albert Einstein
  • Problems cannot be solved by thinking in the framework in which they were created
    Albert Einstein
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    Henry Ford
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    Wayne Gretsky, ice hockey’s all time top goal scorer
  • My secret. I've never skated to where the puck was. I skated to where it is going to be.
    Wayne Gretsky, ice hockey star

Jocelyn Bell

Seek understanding not the truth

Seek understanding not the truth

By Mark Palmer on December 10, 2018

In 1967 a graduate intern from Cambridge working towards her PHD helped discover one of the major break throughs in our understanding of science and the universe. Her name was Jocelyn Bell and what she helped discover was something we now call Pulsars.  Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Neutron [...]

Posted in Media | Tagged discovery, fresh perspective, ideas, innovation, Jocelyn Bell, physics, pulsars, science, space, understanding, universe | 2 Responses

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