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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.
Lisa Randall
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Lisa Randall
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: June 18
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Lisa Joy Randall
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Scientists actively approach the door to knowledge—the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.
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I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
Lisa Randall
Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.
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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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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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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.
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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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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When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.
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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 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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Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.
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Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
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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.
Lisa Randall
I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.
Lisa Randall
You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
Lisa Randall
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.
Lisa Randall
Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
Lisa Randall
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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Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.
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