"There is a philosophy that says that if……" — Leonard Susskind
"There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations."
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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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[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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I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain…
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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical…
— Marvin Minsky
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only…
— Jonathan Swift
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,…
— Carl Sagan
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any…
— Thomas Huxley
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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
— Mason Cooley
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
— J. P. Morgan
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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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