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We still don't know what about 96 per cent of the universe is made of. It is dark matter and dark energy, but we have no idea what it is.

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There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.

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I am very conscious that, having worked part time, having had a rather disrupted career, my research record is a good deal patchier than any man's of a comparable age.

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Solar storms cause power outages. They pose a hazard to satellites. They might interfere with your GPS or send your compass a couple of degrees off course. But I don't think solar storms are a life-threatening event.

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I became conscious in later life that I had been given an education that enabled me to do all kinds of jobs, but often, jobs weren't open to me.

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You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

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When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.

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In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

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Once a star dies, it's gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.

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That is one of the things that has come out of the discovery of pulsars - more knowledge about the space between the stars.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Scientist

Born: July 15th, 1943

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