Antony Garrett Lisi
Antony Garrett Lisi
Antony Garrett Lisi, known as Garrett Lisi, is an American theoretical physicist and adventure sports enthusiast. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position. He is a strong proponent of balance in life, in his case between scientific research and enjoyment of the outdoors...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth24 January 1968
CountryUnited States of America
math doe world
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.
father thinking path
My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.
beautiful simple make-sense
The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.
fall mind theory
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
fun surfing planets
Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.
guy academia physics
Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.
people want good-things
There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
girlfriend sleep secret
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.
want feels deep-down
Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.
motivation inspiration mean
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.
ninety cents five
Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.
beautiful animal unusual
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.
physics geometry particles
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.
thinking ecstatic
You cannot think when you're ecstatic.