Top 35 Lisa Randall Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would never suspect a thing.”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall

3. “Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries – the arts and humanities.”

— Lisa Randall

4. “It’s hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”

— Lisa Randall

5. “I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I’m a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.”

— Lisa Randall

6. “Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.”

— Lisa Randall

7. “All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it...”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall

9. “Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.”

— Lisa Randall

10. “You might find it hard to imagine gravity as a weak force, but consider that a small magnet can hold up a paper clip, even though the entire earth is pulling down on it.”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall

12. “Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive.”

— Lisa Randall

13. “We certainly don’t yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.”

— Lisa Randall

14. “Basically, I wasn’t properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.”

— Lisa Randall

15. “Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.”

— Lisa Randall

16. “When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that’s a good way to live.”

— Lisa Randall

17. “When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?”

— Lisa Randall

18. “Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can’t wait.”

— Lisa Randall

19. “I’m not creating the universe. I’m creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true.”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall

21. “Science certainly is not the static statement of universal laws we all hear about in elementary school. Nor is it a set of arbitrary rules. Science is an evolving body of knowledge. Many of the ideas we are currently investigating will prove to be wrong or incomplete. Scientific descriptions certainly change as we cross the boundaries that circumscribe what we know and venture into more remote territory where we can glimpse hints of the deeper truths beyond.”

— Lisa Randall

22. “Why should we have perfect senses that can directly perceive everything? The big lesson of physics over the centuries is how much is hidden from our view. From.”

— Lisa Randall

23. “Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.”

— Lisa Randall

24. “We often fail to notice things that we are not expecting.”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall

26. “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.”

— Lisa Randall

27. “Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.”

— Lisa Randall

28. “You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.”

— Lisa Randall

29. “Early in the twentieth century, the physicist Lord Rutherford, best known for his landmark discovery of the atomic nucleus, famously pronounced, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall

31. “We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don’t feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.”

— Lisa Randall

32. “One reason I find anthropic reasoning troublesome is that no one yet knows what might be essential to any possible form of life or even to structures such as galaxies that might support it. I am not as confident as others seem to be that any form of life would be similar to ours.”

— Lisa Randall

33. “Probably if you look like Tyra Banks, it probably is hard, even if you are really smart, for people to take – it surprises some.”

— Lisa Randall

34. “I had this illusion that if I kind of dressed badly that I wouldn’t stand out. So I actually went out of my way to not look different to the extent I could.”

— Lisa Randall

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

— Lisa Randall