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Lisa Randall Quotes

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress – and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

– Lisa Randall

Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don’t entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness.

– Lisa Randall

I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.

– Lisa Randall

You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn’t think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later – and vice versa.

– Lisa Randall

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

– Lisa Randall

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it’s kind of obvious when you’re learning things faster than other kids.

– Lisa Randall

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it’s high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.

– Lisa Randall

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

– Lisa Randall

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

– Lisa Randall

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

– Lisa Randall

There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they’re tiny or warped. But even if they’re invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.

– Lisa Randall

In the history of physics, every time we’ve looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we’ve found things that we wouldn’t have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that?

– Lisa Randall

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

– Lisa Randall

I would say it’s important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

– Lisa Randall

Most physicists like myself won’t believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

– Lisa Randall

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

– Lisa Randall

I don’t think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we’re sitting here? Solving string theory won’t tell us how humanity was born.

– Lisa Randall

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

– Lisa Randall

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn’t as much a priority for me.

– Lisa Randall

The scientist is also a composer… You could think of science as discovering one particular thing – a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world.

– Lisa Randall

I don’t think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.

– Lisa Randall

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

– Lisa Randall

When you’re reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter.

– Lisa Randall

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

– Lisa Randall

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.

– Lisa Randall

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you’re criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

– Lisa Randall

If you look through the shelves of science books, you’ll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

– Lisa Randall

In fairness, I don’t think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are… Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

– Lisa Randall

I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle.

– Lisa Randall

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.

– Lisa Randall

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