Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy. Leonard Susskind darkenergyeventually Change image and share on social
Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction. Leonard Susskind fictioninterestscience Change image and share on social
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 believerexplaingreat Change image and share on social
I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind arbitrarycollectiondiscomfort share on social
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. Leonard Susskind businesscollegeengineer share on social
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 coexistcompatibleevolution Change image and share on social
The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation. Leonard Susskind cosmologycreatefluctuation Change image and share on social
Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? And, you know, everybody has their own idea about what it is, but there's no coherent final consensus on why there is space. Leonard Susskind coherentconsensusdevil share on social
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 bronxfamilyfather Change image and share on social
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics. Leonard Susskind engineerfalllove Change image and share on social
