Lisa Randall

I mean, I think we're doing everything we can to dismantle the structures that allow science to exist.

Lisa Randall, and I'm a physicist professor at Harvard.

You can't have these executive committees or congressional committees that really understand things.

I mean, some things are difficult to understand, and not everyone will understand them.

And it's really important for a scientist to be able to at least get the information out there and have that taken into account.

There's also an idea that, you know, when people talk about science, they're being elitist.

That's not what it's about.

It's about understanding the world.

It's something that we want to share.

I mean, there's a wonderful universe out there, yet we're so short-sighted and we really don't think about the long-term consequences of what we're doing and what it does to our lives and what it does to animals' lives or plant life.

I mean, he did want to have quirks and to have stories about him.

You know, he really wanted to create this persona.

Lisa Randall, and I am a physicist professor at Harvard.

I do theoretical particle physics and cosmology.

This sounds kind of obnoxious, but if you're smart enough to do particle physics, you're probably smart enough to do other jobs where you make a lot more money, you get a lot more prestige in other ways.

So, you know, sort of your currency is, you know, how important you're considered and what you've accomplished and what people think of you.

So for some people, that's more important than others.

He's a born performer.

He clearly liked the adulation.

When I was entering the field, I went out of my way to learn the physics of people and to learn as little about their personality as possible.