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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. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Harvard freshmen are smart, interested, and excited, and it's fun hearing their different perspectives and stuff that they will share. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The standard model of particle physics describes forces and particles very well, but when you throw gravity into the equation, it all falls apart. You have to fudge the figures to make it work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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