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It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.
- Leonard Susskind
#Life Is A
#Life
#Own
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#Rules
Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.
- Leonard Susskind
#Death
#Distance
#Life
#Sun
#Winter
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.
- Leonard Susskind
#Family
#Father
#Fun
#Poor
#Sick
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
- Leonard Susskind
#Explain
#Great
#Possible
#Process
#Time
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
- Leonard Susskind
#Bore
#Everyone
#Expert
#Me
#Science
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 confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.
- Leonard Susskind
#Confused
#Information
#Know
#Lost
#Time
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 were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
- Leonard Susskind
#City
#Education
#Great
#Man
#Work
I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
- Leonard Susskind
#Ahead
#Curious
#Doing
#Physics
#Week
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
#Devil
#Now
#Quantum
#Say
#Space
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
- Leonard Susskind
#Against
#Idea
#Random
#Success
#Universe
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
- Leonard Susskind
#Fiction
#Me
#Science
#Stranger
#Weird
The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.
- Leonard Susskind
#Big
#Mathematics
#News
#Together
#Way
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.
- Leonard Susskind
#Feelings
#Human
#People
#Physics
#Social
I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.
- Leonard Susskind
#God
#Intelligence
#People
#Universe
I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.
- Leonard Susskind
#Always
#Enjoyment
#Explain
#Physics
Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were.
- Leonard Susskind
#Find
#Physics
#Principles
#Universe
#Us
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.
- Leonard Susskind
#Evolution
#Faith
#Religion
#Science
#Two
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
- Leonard Susskind
#Architecture
#Eyes
#People
#See
#Three
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.
- Leonard Susskind
#Back
#I Am
#Man
#Restaurant
#Technology
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
- Leonard Susskind
#Engineering
#Fell
#Love
#Physics
#School
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.
- Leonard Susskind
#Attitude
#Long Time
#Long
#Science
#Time
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.
- Leonard Susskind
#Motion
#Relativity
#See
#Special
#Theory
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.
- Leonard Susskind
#Big
#Consensus
#Room
#Space
#Things
#Why
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
- Leonard Susskind
#Happens
#Remember
#Science
#Surprises
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