Lisa Randall Quotes

I was always good at math and science and physics.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

When I was in school, I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Science is the only true guide in life.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.