Leonard Susskind Quotes

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

A matter of no interest to us whether the earth is a sphere or a cylinder or a disk, or concave in the middle like a fan.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

Space is absolutely a 3-D world in comparison to our 2-D world on Earth.

Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

When you intercept the ball with your stomach, that is great defense

The right angle is one of the world's basic shapes.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

The earth is Godʹs golf ball.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

You can't win without the ball.

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.

I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.

Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!