I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving. Lisa Randall More Quotes by Lisa Randall More Quotes From Lisa Randall I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time. Lisa Randall questions good i-can time If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it. Lisa Randall good you women science The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting. Lisa Randall think balance science ideas I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born. Lisa Randall think you research humanity In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom, and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? Lisa Randall look you time history The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself. Lisa Randall yourself think you women I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science. Lisa Randall good science people art The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of it as discovering this whole new way of seeing the world. Lisa Randall think you science world Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas. Lisa Randall think know people ideas In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world. Lisa Randall good painting people world I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe. Lisa Randall me together happy world What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us. Lisa Randall you tomorrow science world I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it. Lisa Randall sense test think science I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids. Lisa Randall good you learning school When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter. Lisa Randall you community matter people There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me. Lisa Randall just me women family