Lisa Randall Quotes

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

We especially need imagination in science.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing about things that already exist. But in the sciences, you're discovering things that no one has known before. Ultimately I chose psychology because it seemed to combine science with things that I liked to think about.

All creation requires a scientific brain.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.