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.
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
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.
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…
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.
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?
[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…
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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