Top 28 Frank Wilczek Quotes
#1. Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.
Leon M. Lederman
#2. Lady, you have the wrong number. Our cat isn't even in the hospital. He doesn't want pajamas.
Jenny Lawson
#3. The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable.
Frank Wilczek
#4. 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
#5. The human mind is our ultimate sense organ. Mind has discovered that there are invisible infinities hidden in light. Our perception of color projects the doubly infinite-dimensional space of physical color onto the three-dimensional wall of our inner Cave.
Frank Wilczek
#6. 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
#7. I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.
Frank Wilczek
#8. Two obsessions are the hallmarks of Nature's artistic style:
Symmetry- a love of harmony, balance, and proportion
Economy- satisfaction in producing an abundance of effects from very limited means
Frank Wilczek
#9. In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
Frank Wilczek
#10. In short: the space of color information is infinite-dimensional, but we perceive, as color, only a three-dimensional surface, onto which those infinite dimensions project.
Frank Wilczek
#11. If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a mistake.
Frank Wilczek
#12. The main point is that quantum reality is REALLY, REALLY BIG. We'll build up a toy model that describes social life among the spins of just five particles, and we'll discover that it fills out a space of thirty-two dimensions.
Frank Wilczek
#13. What cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes
William Shakespeare
#14. I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.
Frank Wilczek
#15. You shouldn't have to settle for anything. You deserve to be with someone who thinks the world of you.
Josephine Myles
#16. I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy
of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.
Frank Wilczek
#17. 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
#18. The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truths. An ordinary truth is a statement whose opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth.
Frank Wilczek
#19. 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
#21. When it came to the strong-willed women in my life, I found it was sometimes easiest to nod and agree with whatever they dictated was best.
Richelle Mead
#22. The reality is I'm kind of like an ocean. Everything is calm, calm, calm. I'm good. When the ball goes up in the air, the waves start rocking.
J. R. Smith
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. If an energetic and powerful Creator made the world, it could be that what moved Him - or Her, or Them, or It - to create was precisely an impulse to make something beautiful.
Frank Wilczek
#26. And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the vine of days.
Dylan Thomas
#27. Transient and Eternal
The state of the world is in flux, and every object within it is subject to change.
Concepts live outside of time and, because All Things Are Number, liberate us from it.
Frank Wilczek
#28. I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.
Suzy Bogguss
