Think Independently Quotes by Antony Garrett Lisi

Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science,…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

— Antony Garrett Lisi