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

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

" I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better. "

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" 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 think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge. "

" I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle. "

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

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

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

" 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. "