Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
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 i… - 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 i…
- Leonard Susskind
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. - Leonard Susskind
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
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 fa… - 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 fa…
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert. - Leonard Susskind
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it. - Leonard Susskind
[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.
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… - Leonard Susskind
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…
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid e… - Leonard Susskind
We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid e…
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
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?
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 wou… - Leonard Susskind
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 wou…
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