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 RandallI think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.
Lisa RandallWhen 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 RandallWhen I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.
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 RandallThere are many aspects of time we just do not understand. Thatโs the thing about writing a popular book: You realize the things you understand because for those you can give a really simple explanation. But some things about time I just donโt know how to give simple explanations for, even though I can tell you mathematically whatโs going on.
Lisa RandallScientists actively approach the door to knowledgeโthe boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.
Lisa Randall