Garrett Lisi Quotes

#1. Out of gas ... I haven't heard that one in a long time.

Carey Lowell

#2. 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.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#3. 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.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#4. What is beautiful is loved, and what is not is unloved.

Theognis

#5. Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#6. Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

Terry Southern

#7. The glorious gift of a new year is sacred blessing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. 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.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#9. Being poor sucks ... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#10. The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.

Behdad Sami

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

#13. 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.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

#15. Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#16. I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#17. She had ridden that kiss better than she had ever ridden a surfboard. It didn't matter if Russell was clueless about surfing. He certainly knew a thing or two about kissing.

Penelope Marzec

#18. Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

#21. Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

#23. Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation.

Ayn Rand

#24. With maaaaaaaaaagic!

Lev Grossman

#25. I've gotten e-mails asking, 'Are you taking students?' Well, come visit and I'll be happy to talk to you. But I'm not a degree-granting institution.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#26. It is extraordinarily difficult, even in academia, to find a job that will let you do whatever you want with your time. If you are determined to spend your time following your own interests, you pretty much have to do it on your own.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#27. Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

Jay Samit

#28. Truth's opposite is not a lie, but a hundred thousand lies.

Marty Rubin

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

#31. Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Lena Horne

#33. You cannot think when you're ecstatic.

Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Antony Garrett Lisi

#35. I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

Henry Rollins

#36. But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.

Jenny Han

#37. Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#38. THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus's foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.

Peter Manseau