Lev Landau famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
-- Lev Landau -
Cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt
-- Lev Landau -
A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.
-- Lev Landau -
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.
-- Lev Landau -
Product of optimism and knowledge is a constant.
-- Lev Landau -
Money is in the exponent. And exponent needs to be calculated precisely.
-- Lev Landau -
Why add prime numbers? Prime numbers are made to be multiplied, not added.
-- Lev Landau
-
This land is a monopoly of erroneous ideas.
-
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
-
I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
-
And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.
-
Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
-
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
-
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
-
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
-
But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
-
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
You may also like:
-
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist -
Anthony James Leggett
Physics researcher -
David Mermin
Physicist -
Enrico Fermi
Physicist -
Erwin Schrodinger
Physicist -
Eugene Wigner
Physicist -
George Gamow
Physicist -
John Bardeen
Physicist -
John Ziman
Physicist -
Julian Schwinger
Theoretical Physicist -
Niels Bohr
Physicist -
Paul Dirac
Physicist -
Philip Warren Anderson
Physicist -
Pyotr Kapitsa
Physicist -
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist -
Robert B. Laughlin
Professor -
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist -
Wolfgang Pauli
Physicist