Frank Wilczek quotes
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“If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.”
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“In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.”
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“In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.”
-- Frank WilczekSource : Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific
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“The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.”
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“I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.”
-- Frank WilczekSource : Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers”, p.175, Penguin UK
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“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
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“I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.”
-- Frank WilczekSource : Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine (2006). “Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys and a Trip to Stockholm”, p.516, World Scientific
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“An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.”
-- Frank WilczekSource : Frank Wilczek (2009). “The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces”, p.16, Hachette UK
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“When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.”
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“Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.”
-- Frank WilczekSource : "The Lightness of Being - Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces". Book by Frank Wilczek, 2008.
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