Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.
Lisa RandallAll the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.
Lisa RandallBoth religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
Lisa RandallI 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 RandallFaith just doesn't have anything to do with what I'm doing as a scientist. It's nice if you can believe in God, because then you see more of a purpose in things. Even if you don't, though, it doesn't mean that there's no purpose. It doesn't mean that there's no goodness. I think that there's a virtue in being good in and of itself. I think that one can work with the world we have.
Lisa Randall