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Leonard Susskind Quotes

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

Leonard Susskind

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1940

Topics

Life Water Man Universe Special

Whenever we come back from another project, we're always so stoked to see each other and play with each other again. I really feel like that's been the key to why we're still together as a band. I remember a period five or six years ago feeling a little burnt out and wasn't sure whether I wanted to keep doing it.

Jim James

Together Key Feel Doing Remember

Way back in 2008, when the iPhone was new and Instagram was a gleam in Kevin Systrom's eye, I was involved in creating a service called CrowdFire. It was a way for fans at a festival (the first was Outside Lands) to share photos, tweets, and texts in a location and event specific way.

John Battelle

Service Eye Back Creating New Way

As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg.

John Gurdon

Animal Present Environment Egg Early

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while.

Troy Dumais

Ride Well Been Roller-Coaster While

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark

Thinking Mean Word Theology Most

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

Rowan Atkinson

Good Toy Like Collector Many Causes

Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Michael Morpurgo

Think You Will Anything Books Like

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

Antony Beevor

War Red Me Criticism Army Now

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Anthony Bourdain

Best Forward Interesting I Can Way

The wear time on clothing for plus-sized women is half the life span of a straight-sized woman's clothing. Straight-sized women's bras can last them three, six months? Our bras don't last as long as a straight-sized woman's bras normally do because we have more movement; we have more weight.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Life Women Time Woman Long Three

I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I'm usually buying my books in at least two formats.

Atul Gawande

Money Stupid Book Wish Media You

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

Princess Margaret

Apparent Heir