Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY” — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all,… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY” — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
The dark energy is not exactly zero, but the first 122 decimal points are zero. That's crazy. That is really one of the craziest… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
“Perhaps he can avoid being stretched by falling in a horizontal position, legs and head at the same altitude. Yet when the giant tries… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
“Let’s return to the question of the ocean tides. The cause of the twice-daily rising and falling of the seas is exactly the same… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share
