"Life is fragile: it thrives only in a……" — Leonard Susskind
"Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it."
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Leonard Susskind
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22 Quotes by Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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More Antarctic Quotes
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Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin,…
— John Updike
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The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never…
— John F. Kennedy
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Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into…
— Unknown Author
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There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or…
— Michael Palin
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I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.
— Robert Falcon Scott
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There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will…
— Edgar Cayce
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One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination…
— Lincoln Ellsworth
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[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month…
— Unknown Author
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In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice,…
— Richard E. Byrd
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Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.
— Richard E. Byrd
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