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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Lisa Randall

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

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

Lisa Randall

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" There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world. "

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

Lisa Randall

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

" 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. "

Lisa Randall

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" 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. "