"I went to college because my father thought……" — 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. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience."
—
Leonard Susskind
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
22 Quotes by Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind has 22 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
There is so much to groak; So little to groak from.
-
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part…
-
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
-
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the…
-
You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical,…
-
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
-
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
-
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand…
-
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
-
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education.…
-
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and…
-
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain…
See all 22 quotes by Leonard Susskind »
More Business Quotes
This quote is filed under Business Quotes,
one of 11,319 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
-
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
-
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
-
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
-
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
— Richard Bach
-
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot…
— Gerard Arpey
-
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
-
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
— Chester A. Arthur
-
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A…
— Mary Kay Ash
See all 11,319 Business Quotes »