Lisa Randall Quotes

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

My education has allowed me to be more open to ideas which I would not have been had I not been as educated.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

A Socrates in every classroom.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.

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

You only stop learning when you quit.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?