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)
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum. So does the nonsense in some papers.
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
A new theory is accepted not because it convinits opponents, but because its opponents die.
Theoretical physics is the art of making good approximations.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
The greatest discovery in physics was not a theory, but the method of creating theories.
Contemporaries of Lev Landau
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Lev Landau (1908–1968).