A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the value of simplifying complex ideas for better understanding.
In this quote, Leonard Susskind expresses the importance of making intricate scientific concepts accessible to the average person. He suggests that his research process involves not only rigorous study but also imagining how he might convey these complex ideas to an audience that may lack a technical background, highlighting the role of effective communication in science.
In practice
During a TED talk about the importance of making science accessible to everyone.
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with us, they are with us to stay, and they entered physics a long time ago. They are not going to go away.
The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.
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.
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
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 not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.
In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils in space and in time are exactly what you would expect if evolution were a fact. There are millions of facts all pointing in the same direction and no facts pointing in the wrong direction.
It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to give their children every advantage.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
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