Anthony James Leggett

1938–2026 · British physicist

Topics: learning, creativity, physics

• 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

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

  — Anthony James Leggett

• 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