19 Leonard Susskind Quotes for You to Enjoy

Leonard Susskind

American Physicist

Born: Jan 1, 1940

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Related authors: Brian Greene Edward Teller Freeman Dyson J. Robert Oppenheimer Lawrence M. Krauss Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Richard P. Feynman

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

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The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation. Leonard Susskind

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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. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old. Leonard Susskind

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Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. Leonard Susskind

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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

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

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I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth. Leonard Susskind

I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience. Leonard Susskind

Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space. Leonard Susskind

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I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind

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Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were. Leonard Susskind

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You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't. Leonard Susskind

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At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell! Leonard Susskind

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Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy. Leonard Susskind

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