Quotes from Lisa Randall

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

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

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.

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.

There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.

Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share.

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

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

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.

I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book.

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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