Frank Wilczek
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.Collection: Inspirational
The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.Collection: Beautiful
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Mistake
I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.Collection: Art
Why is there something rather than nothing?Collection: Faith And Reason
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.Collection: Believe
The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.Collection: Religion
I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.Collection: Believe
Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.Collection: Inspiration
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.Collection: Philosophy
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.Collection: Math
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.Collection: Knowing