Leonard Susskind Quotes

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

The job of a theoretical physicist is to make mistakes as fast as possible .

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

I like to try new things.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

One of the biggest and most important tools of theoretical physics is the wastebasket.

We cannot have tomorrow’s miracles if we tie scientists’ hands with yesterday’s rules.

Please don't be deterred in the fanatic application of your sterile logic.

No one will be able to deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.

Physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.

My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise.

The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?

I feel very open to trying new things.

I always love trying new and different things.

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

The truth is, I've got a naturally outgoing nature, and I still have a great love for experimentation.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.