Lisa Randall Quotes

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

Science is a series of judgments, revised without ceasing.

Those in science perform research, have it reviewed by their peers, publish the results, and believe the answer should be obvious.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

Science is evidence-based and provides a continuing understanding of complex natural phenomena. Our understanding is constantly evolving and continually improving.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Hypotheses are what we lack the least.