116 Quotes by Lisa Randall

Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

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

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.