"Man - life in general - seems irrelevant……" — Leonard Susskind
"Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence."
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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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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
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Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.
— Michele Bachmann
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
— Felix Baumgartner
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The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but…
— Conrad Black
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can…
— Julie Burchill
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
— Fred Allen
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Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
— Paul MacCready
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Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make…
— George Wald
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I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and…
— George Wald
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound…
— Fritjof Capra
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