"It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules……" — Leonard Susskind
"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: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence."
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Leonard Susskind
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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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I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
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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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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of…
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
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Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
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For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the…
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I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.
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