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" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Thoughts
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" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Picture
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Rules
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Good
Keep
You
" There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings. "
Lisa Randall
Settings
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" Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel. "
Lisa Randall
Light
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Travel
" The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world. "
Lisa Randall
World
Think
Seeing
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
People
Work
Think
" When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter. "
Lisa Randall
Image
You
Community
" You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down. "
Lisa Randall
Principles
You
Break
" I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it. "
Lisa Randall
Sense
Think
Test
" Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is. "
Lisa Randall
Physicists
Understand
Why
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
New
Results
Present
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Questions
Creative
People
" I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better. "
Lisa Randall
Think
Better
Simplicity
" I started out working on supersymmetry. The theory predicts that for every particle we know about, there will be an additional particle. "
Lisa Randall
Started
Theory
Working
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Challenge
Science
Religion
" 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
Like
Possible
Believe
" I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to. "
Lisa Randall
Out
Important
Speak
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Women
Find
Look
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Process
Balance
Think
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Matter
Structure
Tell
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Good
You
Smart
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Humanity
You
Born
" Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. "
Lisa Randall
Magic
Religion
Work
" 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
Ideas
Me
Questions
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Arts
Science
Mathematics
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Think
World
Good
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Real
World
Thought
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Community
Belonging
Experience
" 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
Happy
Me
World
" 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. "
Lisa Randall
Good
Science
Think