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" I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids. "

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

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" 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 routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly. "

" 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 to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lisa Randall

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" 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. "

" Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances. "

" 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. "

" Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective. "

" 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. "