Leonard Susskind Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Leonard Susskind quotes and sayings (physicist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.”
“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?”
“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.”
“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.”
“A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.”
“I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.”
“I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.”
“Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.”
“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.”
“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.”
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