Frank Wilczek famous quotes

03-23-2025

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-- Frank Wilczek

#Crazy #Mistake #Problem
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
-- Frank Wilczek

#Science #Doe #Physics
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

#Math #Trying #Physics
The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.
-- Frank Wilczek

#Religion #Would Be #Answers
I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.
-- Frank Wilczek

#Believe #I Believe #Said
Why is there something rather than nothing?
-- Frank Wilczek
I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
-- Frank Wilczek

#Philosophy #Math #College
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

#Mistake #Profound #Progress
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

#Believe #Yield #Matter
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

#Knowing #Understanding #May

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