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" 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. "

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

" If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it. "

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

" I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. "

" You learn that the interest is in what you don't yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time. "

" The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting. "

" 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. "

" Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions. "

" The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. "

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

" 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. "

" What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me. "

" 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 connect to the real world. I liked puzzle-solving and connections. "

" 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. "