Lisa Randall Quotes

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. 'Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?'... I don't know. I don't have any answers to those questions. I don't know what's over there around the corner. But I want to find out.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

As we gain more knowledge about materials and processes in the universe, that could open up benefits that we can't even imagine. But you have to be willing to fund science without knowledge of the benefits.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.