“ 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'… Leonard Susskind
“ 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… Leonard Susskind
“ Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. Leonard Susskind
“ 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… Leonard Susskind
“ 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 ph… Leonard Susskind
“ 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 t… Leonard Susskind
“ 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… Leonard Susskind
“ 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… Leonard Susskind
“ 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 ba… Leonard Susskind
“ 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
“ There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the re… Leonard Susskind
“ At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on. Leonard Susskind
