Lisa Randall Quotes

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. If, like me, you have looked at the stars, and tried to make sense of what you see, you too have started to wonder what makes the universe exist.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I feel that I've often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain. Why the universe is accelerating in its expansion and what came before the Big Bang serve as compelling examples. The process of science provides a way to seek answers to those questions.

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

We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

You know, dark matter matters.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

I'm interested in anything that deals with our planet, in our planet, outside our planet, the universe, universes, galactic, dimensional, subterranean. That's deep stuff that everybody needs to focus on: What is your niche on this planet? Why are we here? Why are there roaches and water-bugs and all that type of stuff?

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

There are two questions that get to us all: Are we alone in the Universe? And, where did we come from? For me, science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion I've come across. With that said, the universe is mysterious and wonderful. It fills me with reverence for nature and our place among the stars; our place in space.