Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space. — 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
