L.D. Landau's plain talk to students of physics, E.M. Lifshitz, Am. J. Phys., Vol. 45, No. 5, May 1977
This article was published in1971 in the Russian journal Science and Life. Teachers and students who read our journal can profit from the advice of this masterful theoretician. We are grateful to E.M. Lifshitz and the editor of Science and life for permission to publish the article. We are grateful to E.M. Lifshitz, and to the editor Science and life for permission to publish the article to J. George Damask for preparing the translation .