Anything Quote by Leonard Susskind

“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

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

— Leonard Susskind

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

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

— Leonard Susskind

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

— Leonard Susskind

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY”

— Leonard Susskind

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

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

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

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

Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy.

— Leonard Susskind

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