Robert B. Laughlin > Quotes

“A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.”
― Robert Laughlin

“One of the greatest disservices we do to our students is to teach them that universal physical law is something that obviously ought to be true and thus may be legitimately learned by rote. This is terrible on many levels, the worst probably being the missed lesson that meaningful things have to be fought for and often require great suffering tomorrow achieve. The attitude of complacency is also opposite to the one that brought these beautiful new ideas into the world in the first place—indeed, what brings things of great importance into the world generally.”
― Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down