Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

As with any large investment, it can be emotionally difficult to abandon a line of research when it isn't working out. But in science, if something isn't working, you have to toss it out and try something else.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.