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14 quotes by Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind (born June 1940) is the Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University, and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of...
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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... →

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

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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... →

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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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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... →

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

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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... →

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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?

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Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's... →

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I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

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

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

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I'm a great believer in our ability to come up with the ideas necessary to solve the big questions. I have less confidence that we'll be able... →

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