” You learn that the interest is in what you don’t yet know and that theories evolve. But we nonetheless have progress and improved knowledge over time. “
” 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. “
” You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn’t think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later – and vice versa. “
” 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? “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” 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. “
” When you’re reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter. “
” 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. “
” I do theoretical particle physics. We’re trying to understand the most basic structure of matter. And the way you do that is you have to look at really small distances. And to get to small distances, you need high energies. “
” You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down. “
” We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you’re really doing science, when you’re doing research, you’re at the edge of what we know. “
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