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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

Quantum Mechanics

" 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 do theoretical particle physics. We're trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself. "

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