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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

The reputation of being a radical physicist is a myth; I consider myself the most conservative physicist imaginable.

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Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics

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Leonard Susskind on Richard Feynman, the Holographic Principle, and Unanswered Questions in Physics

12/07/18

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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

Richard Feynman was about as mainstream as you can be, but he had his own very special scientific personality.

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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

I am very mainstream; I am not at all an alternative thinker. This misconception about me is not true.

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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

My physics has been extremely mainstream, and while some ideas may have seemed outlandish at first, they quickly caught on.

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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

Freeman Dyson is a contrarian who enjoys running against the grain, but he has a high probability of being wrong.

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Rory Sutherland

04/10/25

@ EPIC Conjoint

Economists often label irrational behavior when it contradicts their theories, while physicists cannot blame their experiments on external factors.

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Naval Ravikant

06/05/19

@ PowerfulJRE

The physical sciences have reality on their side, but they are losing credibility in the current academic environment.

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Terence Tao

06/15/25

@ Lex Fridman

Physics is a victim of its own success; general relativity and quantum mechanics are so effective that they cover 99.9% of observations, making it hard to find deviations to combine them.

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Leonard Susskind

12/07/18

@ Y Combinator

Feynman was troubled by his involvement in the development of nuclear weapons and worked hard for nuclear disarmament, contrasting with his more detached approach to physics.

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Andrew Huberman

05/28/25

@ Theo Von

Scientists are good people, and I can say that with no bias since I don't make my living doing science anymore. 99.9% of them are good, but the bad apples ruin it for everyone.