[A]s I studied more physics the question... at the core... was: "What is matter, and how does it interact to… — Suzie Sheehy

The reason we can say today that we know all this stuff, that we think our theoretical models represent reality, is not because we have pretty mathematics but because we have done experiments.

I suppose I was trying to figure out the meaning of my own existence. ...I went about it in a more indirect way: I set about trying to understand the entire Universe.

[E]xperiments take us to that frightening frontier of vulnerability: the real world.