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" 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. "

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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. "

Lisa Randall

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Lisa Randall

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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