Lisa Randall Quotes

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

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

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

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.