Frank Wilczek Professions : Theoretical Physicist Born : May 15, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Frank Wilczek If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. Frank Wilczek mistake work inspirational In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. Frank Wilczek doe funny science 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 Wilczek progress mistake profound The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us. Frank Wilczek want brain beautiful Why is there something rather than nothing? Frank Wilczek anthropic-principle faith-and-reason god-exists The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable. Frank Wilczek would-be answers religion 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. Frank Wilczek yield matter believe I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain. Frank Wilczek convinced brain art I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong. Frank Wilczek i-believe said believe 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 Wilczek physics math trying 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. Frank Wilczek inspiration hero looks I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. Frank Wilczek college math philosophy 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 Wilczek understanding knowing may Similar Authors Brian Greene theoretical-physicist Albert Einstein theoretical-physicist Julian Schwinger theoretical-physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer theoretical-physicist Steven Weinberg theoretical-physicist All Authors
