The Cosmic Landscape Quotes

“Dick Feynman was a genius of visualization (he was also no slouch with equations): he made a mental picture of anything he was working on. While others were writing blackboard-filling formulas to express the laws of elementary particles, he would just draw a picture and figure out the answer.”
― Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY”
― Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

“We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.”
― Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design

“The principles are exactly the same as those of QED: everything is built out of propagators, vertex diagrams, and coupling constants. But there are new actors and whole new plot lines, including one called QCD.”
― Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design