Lisa Randall Quotes
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If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.
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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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I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.
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Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
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I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.
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Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.
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Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.
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Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
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You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.
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Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.
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All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.
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I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
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It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
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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.
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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 laterand vice versa. I think simplicity is a good guide: The more economical a theory, the better.
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I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn't stand out. You know, so I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.
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I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.
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We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.
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One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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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.
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Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take - it surprises some.
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When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
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There are many aspects of time we just do not understand. That’s the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the things you understand because for those you can give a really simple explanation. But some things about time I just don’t know how to give simple explanations for, even though I can tell you mathematically what’s going on.
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Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical and maybe even experimental grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.
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Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.
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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.
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The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.
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Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
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Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.
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