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Lisa Randall Quotes

It’s not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we’ll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that’s given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.

– Lisa Randall

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

– Lisa Randall

Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter’s most basic elements and interactions.

– Lisa Randall

I do theoretical particle physics. We’re trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies.

– Lisa Randall

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

– Lisa Randall

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.

– Lisa Randall

You learn that the interest is in what you don’t yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time.

– Lisa Randall

I actually like seeing how the world – trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there’s some sort of order to the universe.

– Lisa Randall

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn’t realize how much it affected me.

– Lisa Randall

If you keep telling girls they’re less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

– Lisa Randall

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

– Lisa Randall

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

– Lisa Randall

What I do is very theoretical. It won’t necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there’s a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us.

– Lisa Randall

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

– Lisa Randall

I don’t necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote ‘Warped Passages,’ I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

– Lisa Randall

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic – something true of religion, too.

– Lisa Randall

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you’re really doing science, when you’re doing research, you’re at the edge of what we know.

– Lisa Randall

There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: ‘I don’t understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can’t say anything about it.’ I think it’s good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.

– Lisa Randall

The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work.

– Lisa Randall

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it’s that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

– Lisa Randall

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored – it’s all fascinating.

– Lisa Randall

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries – the arts and humanities.

– Lisa Randall

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