Author: Leonard Susskind

Quotes

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

- Leonard Susskind

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

- 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.

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.

- Leonard Susskind

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it?

- Leonard Susskind

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

- Leonard Susskind

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

- Leonard Susskind

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

- Leonard Susskind

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.

- Leonard Susskind

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