"I was going to engineering school but fell……" — Leonard Susskind
"I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics."
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22 Quotes by Leonard Susskind
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There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.
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There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part…
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[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
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We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the…
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You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical,…
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Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
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A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand…
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Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education.…
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I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the…
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Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and…
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I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain…
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