Lisa Randall Quotes

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

The idea of combining the physics of modern particle theory with cosmology was very young when I started working on cosmology.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

Physicists have as their calling the answering of questions once thought to be unknowable.

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don't really know.

I'm a cosmologist. All I do is cosmology.

We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece.

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

As an astrophysicist, my research work involves mapping dark matter, the elusive substance that accounts for about a quarter of our universe.

I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

You know, dark matter matters.

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.

It is an embarrassment that the dominant forms of matter in the universe remain hypothetical.

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I think there’s still certainly research that needs to be done. But most models of inflation do lead to a multiverse, and evidence for inflation will be pushing us in the direction of taking [the idea of a] multiverse seriously.

If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night.