Lisa Randall

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.

Because I have to say, many times when I found out about the people, I was disappointed.

I just felt like I didn't want to know it.

I just wanted to focus on the physics itself.

Look, you can try to justify him, but the fact is, he was proud enough that it becomes the centerpiece of his book.

I do think we give people a free pass for things they do to women in ways that we don't give them a free pass in things that happen to other people.

I mean, look, I've been to Caltech recently.

I really like being there.

It's really fun.

But when I took the PSAT, I did very well.

And I was sent a pamphlet that said, literally, what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like Caltech?