All Leonard Susskind Quotes
- There is so much to groak; So little to groak from. From
- There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… Astrology
- [Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. Believed
- We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term… Ball
- You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is… Devil
- I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics. Engineering
- Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. Different Realities
- A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. Admiring
- Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert. Blogs
- 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 friends… Academic
- I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There,… Business
- Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people… Creatures
- I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is… Audience
- 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… All
- Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most… All
- Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint… Carbon
- Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right… Antarctic
- It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed:… Accidentally
- Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. Exception
- The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation. Cosmology