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 RandallAll the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.
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 RandallCreativity 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 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