This work contains many things which are new and interesting. Unfortunately, everything that is new is not interesting, and everything which is inter… - Lev Davidovich Landau

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

The idea seems to exist that there can be an absolutely continuous transition between the liquid and crystalline state (analogous to the transition liquid-gas), which would require the existence of a miraculous state which is neither isotropic nor anisotropic.

In the 1930s Landau was already saying, "I am one of the few universal physicists"; after the death of Enrico Fermi, this became "I am the last of the universal physicists".