Leggett Quotes

#1. Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.

Gore Vidal

#2. There are very few things that can be proved rigorously in condensed matter physics.

Anthony James Leggett

#3. Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Honore De Balzac

#4. I prescribe a quick jerk off in the shower and a return to sanity. (Dr. Hugo Peralta)

Kate Richards

#5. Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.

Anthony James Leggett

#6. Time is a slut. she screws everyone.

John Green

#7. People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Albert Bandura

#8. The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Anthony James Leggett

#9. Southern Mamas are known for being subtle, like a freight train.

Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

#10. In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan