American - Physicist | January 1, 1940 - 1
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
Leonard Susskind
LoveSchoolEngineeringPhysicsFell
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
PhysicsMoreNeedExplainAlways
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
TimeResearchUnderstandDifficult
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
ScienceMeEveryoneExpertBore
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.
TechnologyManBalanceI AmWelcome
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.
SpaceWhyExploringRoomConsensus
Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.
PeopleReadingEnoughPhysicsOver
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
GreatTimeProcessYouPossible
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 to find a consensus about which ones are right without experiment.
ConfidenceGreatIdeasQuestions
I went to college because my father thought that I should learn engineering, because he wanted to go into the heating business with me. There, I realized I wanted to be a physicist. I had to tell him, which was a somewhat traumatic experience.
FatherBusinessExperienceCollege
Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.
PeopleEnvironmentPhysicsFeelings
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.
FunnyMeThinkProcessPhysicsWay
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Leonard Susskind quotes