I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. — 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
