Lisa Randall Quotes

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Lisa Randall

Profession : Physicist

Birth : June 18, 1962

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Lisa Randall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa Randall

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