All Lisa Randall Quotes
- You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak. Distance
- 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… Beyond
- Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel. Difficult
- 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… Acknowledged
- 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… Absorb
- 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… Ability
- 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… Advances
- Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. Believers
- 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,… Audience
- 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… Challenge
- I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science. Interested
- When I came to Harvard, I was debating between math and science, and I guess I thought in the end I wanted something that could… Came