Education Quote by Leonard Susskind Download Open image “I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.” — Leonard Susskind ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Engineering Fell Going Love Physics School
In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
I originally went to school for engineering because I loved math and thought I liked science. — Christina Tosi Copy Share Image
I was having a hard time getting interest from future employers because of my physics background. It seemed all anyone wanted was engineers. — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics. — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
I love physics with all my heart ... It is a kind of personal love, as one has for a person to whom one… — Lise Meitner Copy Share Image
When I got started in my own engineering course, my interest in physics and maths was very high. After all, engineering is all about… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
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 Image
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics… — Burton Richter Copy Share Image
But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a little while… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things. — Leroy Chiao 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 Image
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. — 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 a plural… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
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 Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image