Lisa Randall Quotes

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.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

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

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.

Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

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

You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.

We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.

I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

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

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.

Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.