Lev Landau
Made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, including quantum mechanics, condensed matter physics, and cosmology.
Most quoted
"There are three kinds of scientists: those who are good at calculations, those who are good at experiments, and those who are good at talking. I belong to the third category."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
All quotes by Lev Landau (306)
Science is the art of the soluble.
There are two kinds of physicists: those who understand and those who don't.
If you want to be a physicist, you have to be a little bit crazy.
I don't believe in miracles, I rely on them.
A physicist is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Physics is not just a collection of facts; it is a way of thinking, a way of understanding the world.
Science is the only way to understand the universe, and therefore, ourselves.
The purpose of life is to understand the universe, and the purpose of understanding the universe is to understand life.
There are no shortcuts to understanding. You have to work hard, think deeply, and question everything.
The human mind is the most complex thing in the universe, and yet, we know so little about it.
Death is not the end, but a transformation. The energy of the universe is conserved, and so is our essence.
The beauty of physics lies in its simplicity and its ability to explain the most complex phenomena.
To truly understand something, you must be able to explain it to a child.
Contemporaries of Lev Landau
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Lev Landau (1908–1968).